Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Mobile Browsers

The browsers embedded in mobile phones and PDAs (also known as microbrowsers ) are designed to accommodate the lower memory capacity, low bandwidth abilities, and limited display area of handheld devices. Some are WAP browsers with limited HTML support (see the sidebar, "WAP and WML“), and some are full-featured browsers that support the current web standards and allow access to all the same web content that is available from a PC browser. (Some of the best-known mobile browsers and their web addresses are listed at the end of this section.)