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Are mobile Web/Wap browsers acceptable for widgets?

April 26, 2017acceptable BROWSERS mobile WAP web widgets

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Are mobile Web/Wap browsers acceptable for widgets?

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It is useless to compare a PC Web browser with a mobile Web browser: on mobiles only basic navigation features are supported, but, except on some smartphones, all advanced features of PC world are not implemented: plug-ins, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, etc. The reasons of this poverty are once again related to the complexity and the heterogeneity of the mobile environments. It has to be said that mobile phone browser actors are not the same as for the PC world (Openwave, Access vs Microsoft, Mozilla, Netscape).Using embedded browser in order to execute widgets is dramatically limited in functionalities: no page refresh, no mobile desktop (Idle Screen) access, no mobile specific features access, etc.