The Nokia Open Source Browser

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The Nokia Open Source Browser
Guido Grassel1, Roland Geisler2, Elina Vartiainen1, Deepika Chauhan2, Andrei Popescu1
1Nokia Research Center, P.O. Box 407, 00045 Nokia Group, Finland
2Nokia Technology Platforms, 5 Wayside Road, Burlington, MA 01803, U.S.A,
[guido.grassel, roland.geisler, elina.vartiainen, deepika.chauhan, andrei.popescu]@nokia.com
ABSTRACT
With the advent of faster wireless networks and more
capable mobile devices we expect to see growth in the mobile use
of the Internet. In this paper we describe a new Web browser for
mobile devices that we have built based on Open Source Software
components. Our goal was to design a full Web browser that is
easy to use, an architecture that is portable to other mobile
software platforms, and an Open Source development approach to
give others the opportunity to further develop it or use it for
research purposes. We describe our technical implementation, the
usability features that we invented, and discuss the benefits and
Nokia’s plans to work with the Open Source community to further
develop the browser.
Keywords
Web browser, Internet, Mobile devices, Usability, User
Experience, Open Source Software.
1. INTRODUCTION
We started looking into a new Web browser for the S60
smart phone…