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Digia Web Browser S60v5

| November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments

multi window landscape Digia Web Browser S60v5

There are an endless number of alternates to the native S60 browser out there now days, including Skyfire, Bolt and Opera mini. But today I stumbled accross a new one over on the Daily Mobile forums called Digita. I installed this onto my 5800 and after just a few minutes I realised just how good it is. It is still in beta and has the odd few bugs and niggles which need to be addressed, however the whole experience, in my opinion easily surpasses that of the in built s60 web browser.

The interface is nice and clean in contrast to our phones native browser and it supports flash to. There is also the neat ability, like the N97 does, of automatically switching the device to full screen once the webpage is fully loaded. This is something I believe makes the whole viewing experience a lot more pleasant. There is also the option to have multiple windows open (the same as tabs on a desktop) in order to seamlessly browser different webpages at the same time much like the iPhone. Â Hopefully the slowness will be improved in future releases, oh and I’ve noticed that when you want to log into something securely i.e Facebook, the application just closes itself. But anyway, why not give it a try and see what you think.

multi window portrait Digia Web Browser S60v5

The full list of features are listed below:

Browser UI features

* Full finger touch UI
* Accelerated panning
* Automatic full screen browsing via auto-hiding controls
* Multiple browser windows
* Page rotation for portrait and landscape browsing
* Multiple zoom levels
* Password manager
* Intelligent Bookmark functionality (auto-sorting)
* Bookmark folders
* Bookmark favicons
* URL auto-complete (from history)
* ‘Page loading in progress’ indicator
* Text select for copy/paste
* RSS feeds

Browser Engine features

* HTML 4.01
* True web page rendering
* JavaScript(tm) 1.5
* HTTP 1.1 with support to secure and non-secure browsing
* HTTP cache
* HTTP cookies
* AJAX support
* Flash content support
* Netscape compatible Plug-in interface