Bare minimum features necesssary in a browser?


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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?

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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