Nokia Browser for Symbian
Mobile web browser
Nokia Browser for Symbian (formerly known as Web Browser for S60) was the default web browser for the S60 and Symbian mobile phone platform. The browser is based on a port of Apple Inc.'s open-source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks which form the WebKit rendering engine that Apple uses in its Safari Web browser.
History
Nokia announced porting WebKit to the S60 Browser in June 2005, and made it available in November. At the 2006 World Wide Web Conference, Nokia announced that it was releasing the source code for its port of WebKit back to the community.
The version that shipped with S60 3rd Edition devices (pre-Feature Pack 1) lacked support for the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML). The previous browser was pre-installed on these devices to service sites that used these technologies, and could be accessed through the Services application. The new browser is referred to in some technical documentation as the OSS Browser, to distinguish it from the older WAP browser. In S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, these features, along with Flash Lite 2.0 support and minor user interface refinements, are integrated into the new browser (a.k.a OSS Browser 3.1). Some devices running this version of S60 received support for Flash Lite 3.0 through firmware updates.
The version that shipped with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (a.k.a OSS Browser 3.2) added Flash Lite 3.0 and Web Run-Time (WRT) support.
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