Net Browsers

Prism
History
Prism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a "distraction free browser" because none of the typical browser chrome is used. An SSB also has a tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.
Date Created
 November 23,2009


Developer/creator
Mozilla Labs

Platform
 Linux


Feature

• Window title tracking
• Context menu for basic clipboard and selection operations
• Simple Print support via context menu
• About support via context menu which is useful for checking the XULRunner runtime version
• Launch Prism with commandline parameters to host specific webapps
• Web application profile support - parameters for a web app can be saved to an INI-style *.webapp file
• Support for webapp owned popup windows - some email webapps can use a popup to compose email
• Show float-over link destinations in the statusbar so users can see where the link will take them
• Support download manager
• Support for inline spellcheck and suggestions on context menu
• A tool to create new webapp profiles so new webapps can be installed from Prism
• An extension to allow Firefox to create webapp profiles since most of this process starts in the brows

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WinWAP


 History 
The first WinWAP browser that supported WAP 1.2 was released in 1999 as the world's first Wireless Application Protocol browser for Windows. The newest versions of the browser are WAP 2.0 compatible with support for WML, xHTML-MP and HTML


Date Created
August 10,1999


Developer/creator  
 Winwap Technologies

 Platform
Cross-platform

Feature

• Tabbed browser allows multiple pages to be open simultaneously
• Fully WAP 2.0 compatible
• Supported Markup languages:
  • xHTML Mobile Profile 1.2
  • xHTML 1.1
  • WML 2.0
  • HTML 4.01
  • CSS (WAP CSS, CSS 2.1)

All WinWAP Browsers are designed to utilize the underlying operating system as well as possible, so WinWAP for Windows is designed to look, feels and work like your traditional web browser on your PC, even if it supports all the WAP transport protocols and markup langauges your regular PC browser does not support. The browser is often used by the mobile site developers of all the fancy online services because it is quick and easy to use on a Windows powered PC and include features like viewing source code and HTTP headers that help developers debug their WAP services. 

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Microsoft Silverlight


History
an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for web browsers running under Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, current versions support multimedia, graphics and animation, and give developers support for CLI languages and development tools. Silverlight is also one of the two application development platforms for Windows Phone.

Date created 
April 4,2007


Developer/creator

	Microsoft Corporation

Platform

	Intel x86 32-bit, x86-64, ARM and S60

Feature

• WMA Professional support, including WMA 10 Pro low-bitrate modes. However, multi-channel audio content is still down-converted to stereo output.
• Content protection powered by Microsoft PlayReady DRM client.
• Server-side playlists in Windows Media Services.
• Media Stream Source API.

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Opera mini

History 

Opera Mini was derived from the Opera web browser for personal computers, which has been publicly available since 1996.^[7] Opera Mini was originally designed for mobile phones that would ordinarily be incapable of running a web browser.^[8] It was first introduced on August 10, 2005 as a pilot project in cooperation with the Norwegian television station TV 2.^[9] At that time, Opera Mini was only available to TV 2 customers.

A beta version was made available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland on October 20, 2005.^[10] After the final version was launched in Germany on November 10, 2005,^[11] and quietly released to all countries through the Opera Mini website in December, the browser was officially launched worldwide on January 24, 2006.^[12]

On May 3, 2006, Opera Mini 2.0 was released. It included new features such as the ability to download files, new custom skins, more search engine options on the built-in search bar, a speed dial option, new search engines, and improved navigation.^[13]

On November 1, 2006, Opera Mini 3 beta introduced secure browsing, RSS feeds, photo uploading and content folding into its list of features and capabilities.^[14] Content folding works by folding long lists such as navigation bars into a single line that can be expanded as needed. A second beta was released on November 22,^[15] and on November 28, the final version of Opera Mini 3 was released.^[16]

November 7, 2007 saw the release of Opera Mini 4. According to Johan Schön, technical lead of Opera Mini development, "the entire code" was rewritten.^[17] Opera Mini 4 includes the ability to view web pages similar to a desktop based browser by introducing Overview and Zoom functions, as well as a landscape view setting. In Overview mode, the user can scroll a zoomed out version of certain web pages.^[18] Using a built-in pointer, the user can zoom into a portion of the page to provide a clearer view; this is similar to the functionality of Opera's Nintendo-based web browsers. This version also includes the ability to sync with the personal computer edition of Opera.^[19][20]

Date created

December 16,2009

Developer/creator

Opera Software

Platform

Android platform

Feature

Scrolling is achieved with the device's arrow keys, its number keys, or a stylus.^[18][44]

Opera Mini may also be set to landscape mode, where it will rotate the page 90 degrees. This is useful for screens that are significantly taller than they are wide. However, this feature is not yet available on BlackBerrys and some other devices.^[18]

The image quality may be set to "Low", "Medium", or "High".^[45] The higher the image quality, the more data is transferred and the longer it will take to load pages.^[46]

Opera Mini supports only one font,^[40] which can be set to "Small", "Medium", "Large", or "Extra large" size.^[45] If a web page usesCourier or a generic monospaced font, the one font is still used, but the characters are spaced out so that each character takes up the same amount of space.^[40]

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Deep fish

 History

Deepfish was an experimental browsing software system for Windows Mobile devices that used a zooming user interface, being developed at Microsoft Live Labs. It aimed to provide a consistent browsing experience on desktops and mobile devices, to display content on the small mobile displays in the same layout as larger displays, and to avoid the need to recode the web-page for small displays.

Date created

September 30,2008

Developer/creator

Microsoft

Platform

Windows

Feature

 JavaScript, AJAX, cookies, ActiveX controls and HTTP POST were not implemented.

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