What Is the Difference Between a Mobile Web & an HTML Browser?
Mobile browsers are essentially scaled-down versions of standard HTML web browsers viewed on a computer. However, as smartphone technology advances, so does mobile browser technology. Several factors come into play with mobile browsers such as screen resolution size, web page load time, supported web languages, visibility of dynamic content and the cell phone operating system.
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Operating System
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Mobile phones come installed with an operating system that allows the phone to perform different functions, including using the web through a browser. Some popular operating systems include Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, iPhone OS and RIM. Some operating systems only permit certain mobile browsers to be downloaded and installed on the phone. This is not the case with PC or Mac computer operating systems, which permit any web browser to run, as long as a version of it exists for that operating system.
Resolution
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Mobile phone devices have very small screen resolutions in comparison to a standard computer screen. Mobile browsers optimize web content so it is easier to view on a mobile phone screen. Nonetheless, unless a site makes a mobile-browser-specific version, the standard site may look distorted or have missing elements on a mobile browser. Smartphones like the iPhone and Android-based phones have larger screens than most mobile phones, which provide better resolution.
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Web Page Loading
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Depending on the type of content on a web page, it could take substantially longer to load a page on a mobile browser. Mobile phone operating systems and cellular data networks process data onto a web page slower than a standard browser with an Internet connection would in most cases. Images and other dynamic content tend to slow down web page loading, especially on mobile browsers.
Supported Web Languages
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Most mobile web browsers can support some web programming languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax. This allows most content and actions on a site to be viewed or performed on the web browser. Flash, a popular browser plug-in that permits video-viewing, is available on a limited number of mobile devices, but has yet to be supported on a smartphone device (as of 2010). However, the latest iteration of HTML5 supports video viewing without the use of the Flash plug-in on mobile and standard browsers.
Dynamic Content
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The memory capacity on most mobile phones is small, so dynamic content on mobile browsers either loads very slowly or cannot be seen at all. Flash video and animations, for example, are generally not supported on most mobile web browsers. Even JavaScript actions can be difficult to run on mobile browsers, especially if the script heavily utilizes images or external content. It can cause the browser to crash. Typically, this is not the case with most standard web browsers.
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this is nice!
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Nassoro Salum which is the best markup language for mobile web applcations?? xml or html???
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2.Mobile browsers pre-installed in their Os, unlike normal html browsers which can simply be downloaded and istalled.
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1.consider screen resolution factor which hinder some of the dynamic features not well displayed unlikely normal html browser
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this is cuuul.
