
BlackBerry Mobile Data System 9
BlackBerry Browser features
The BlackBerry Browser provides features that can accommodate the constraints of mobile devices and wireless
networks to make mobile browsing efficient and user-friendly.
Feature Description
Web content
support
The BlackBerry Browser supports a wide range of web content, including
• Markup: Compact HTML (cHTML), HTML, XHTML Mobile Profile, WML, and SVG
• Images: GIF (GIF87a and GIF89 – static only), WBMP, PNG, and JPEG
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• Scripts: WMLScript and JavaScript™ (JavaScript 1.3 and earlier; subsets of JavaScript 1.4
and 1.5; and the ECMA-262 ECMAScript Language Specification)
• Media: SVG-based interactive media and animations
Background
requests
Browser requests can run in the background, so users can continue to view other web pages
or use other applications while the web page is loading.
Pending or
offline content
If users are outside of a wireless coverage area, they have a number of options for managing
web content requests:
• When a web page request cannot be completed, the user can save the pending request
to the Messages screen. The BlackBerry Browser resends the request when the
BlackBerry device is in a wireless coverage area and can notify the user when the page
is available.
• Users can define bookmarks for offline use, so they can view cached content without
retrieving it from the server again.
• Users can fill out offline forms and have the BlackBerry Browser queue and submit the
forms in sequence when the BlackBerry device is in a wireless coverage area.
Integration with
BlackBerry
device
applications
The BlackBerry Browser integrates with other BlackBerry device applications to provide a
consistent user experience. Users click a URL in an email message to view that web page in
the BlackBerry Browser. The BlackBerry Browser recognizes URLs, email addresses, and
phone numbers in web pages, so users can click a link to open a new web page, compose an
email message, or place a phone call.
Content
optimized for
wireless
browsing
The optimization service optimizes web content for wireless browsing:
• Image optimization: Depending on BlackBerry device capabilities, the optimization
service converts .jpeg, .gif, .ppm, and .pnm images to .png images, scales images to fit
the BlackBerry device screen dimensions and reduces color depth.
• Content filtering: The optimization service processes HTML content to remove
unsupported tags, converts data to a tokenized format, and compresses the data for
efficient delivery over the wireless network.
• Page rendering: The optimization service retrieves images while it is processing HTML
or XHTML content. It includes the images with the pages that it sends to the BlackBerry
device for faster browsing.
Data security All web browsing between the BlackBerry device and the corporate network occurs over the
standard encrypted connection through the connection service. The BlackBerry Enterprise
Server provides this data security out-of-the-box, without substantial additional setup.
The browser supports the standard SSL and TLS protocols for additional security, especially
to servers on the Internet. By default, if SSL or TLS is requested, the connection service
creates a proxy SSL connection on behalf of the BlackBerry device to make browsing faster.
Users can choose an end-to-end SSL connection. System administrators can set a policy to
enforce end-to-end SSL.
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The BlackBerry Browser supports JPEG images only on BlackBerry devices with color screens. For BlackBerry devices with monochrome
screens, the BlackBerry MDS Data Optimization Service converts JPEG images to PNG format.
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