migo Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 For kicks I've tried using some very simple featured browsers - Links and Off By One. Both of them handled things reasonably well. I was actually able to log into Neowin with both of them, they also both gave me errors when I tried posting a thread and searching. Having the layout not work properly is ok, but not having access to some basic features like posting on a forum is a bit of a problem. I'm not sure what the problem is, but neither of them support JavaScript, so that could be a necessity? HTML 3.2 seems to render things reasonably well - blogs worked nicely in Off By One, and I just had to scroll down a bit to read threads here. There weren't any overlapping artifacts like what I got trying out Lobo. Where does Postdata come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamend Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Postdata is generated by the browser from user input in HTML forms. It's sent back to the HTTP server when the user submits the form. It is formatted as field1=blah&username=blah&password=blah etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migo Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 So then the problem would be that 3.2 doesn't support it well enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamend Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 No it should support it just fine. What I said above about postdata is very general though. Nowadays postdata can be sent with javascript (called Ajax), but I'm not sure if Neowin needs it to log in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migo Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 Doesn't need it to log in, but it's looking like it might be necessary to post threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted December 3, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 3, 2007 I'd say, at a minimum, HTML 4.01 support and CSS1. It's still horribly lacking in support, but would be good enough for most things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migo Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 what is CSS1 necessary for? I'm assuming that would affect layout, but it's actually not that big of a deal to not get some of the formatting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted December 5, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2007 It should be the entirety of the formatting, spacing, size etc. should all be done by CSS. I have to ask though, why are you trying to find a bad browser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migo Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 Cell phones. The less features the better, but it still has to be enough to do what you want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted December 8, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 8, 2007 Well for a cell phone browser, Most support current specs, you've got Opera Mini which is up to date, the WebKit ones are the same, same with the Mozilla one, IE was a bit more crappier last i checked as-well. All you're going to get is a size reduction though, speed wise it will be the same no matter what you use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migo Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 I've got the WebKit one and OperaMini on my E62, the problem is certain websites cause the browser to close down due to lack of memory, so having one that supports a bit less but is still adequate would be ideal for those sites that cram too much data in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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