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The World Wide Web beckons. Mobile device manufacturers and consumers have realized that the Web is not tied to their PCs. The time for the truly Mobile Web is here.

There has been a phenomenal increase in subscribers using browsers to download ringtones, wallpapers and games from operator portals. Newer, more capable devices and browsers stretch the limits of what the Mobile Web constitutes to give subscribers a tantalizing glimpse of the world beyond operator portals. Browsers are firmly moving away from being a novelty - an item of curiosity, on a phone, to a facility whose frequency of use is next only to that of the venerable dialer and the phone book.

For the mobile industry this evokes a strong sense of déjà vu. Not long ago, operators and handset manufacturers were talking of WAP as the Mobile Web – the Internet on your phone. The fallout of that position is well known. Today we talk of the whole World Wide Web on your phone. Newer devices and browsers have to meet this new challenge.

With expectations set, by the experience of accessing the WWW on a PC, subscribers are going to find that access via a phone is, to put it mildly, considerably different. What is required, is a browser that will not disdainfully cut out the Mobile Web, as subscribers have come to know in the past few years. What is required, is a browser that will extend gracefully, the familiarity and convenience of operator portals. A browser that leads the user to the World Wide Web, without sacrificing carefully built up operator portals and content, is the one most likely to succeed.

	Mobile Web The Mobile Web is a convergence of the Mobile World and the Internet as we know it that opens up tremendous possibilities. Products are built on the hugely convenient access of the Internet, via the mobile phone.		jB5 with ®: A browser that leads the user to the World Wide Web, without sacrificing carefully built up operator portals and content.
The very fact that you can now access the Internet anywhere, anytime is so overwhelming that most browsers stop right there. When the amazingly varied content and services available on the Internet, are integrated with the mobile facility: of being able to deliver pushed content of integrating telephony with the web of supporting standards that define mobile data services
is when the full power and benefits of the Mobile Web will become apparent. This requires browsers to support standards and specifications that govern the Internet world, like those from the W3C, as well as those of the mobile world, like from OMA, as well. It needs browsers to harness the unique capabilities of mobile phones like push, telephony integration and location awareness to endow the Mobile Web with a lot more accessibility than presently available to PC browser users.

	Web On The Mobile Browsing the web via a mobile phone presents many challenges – from the obvious limitations of the device’s screen, lack of full keyboard and pointing device, to the less visible processing capability constraints, and the subtle problems of web pages not compliant with standards. Handling this effectively requires browsers to be built ground-up for mobile devices and not just be		® : Provides the flexibility to select a rendering mechanism best suited for the variety of device capabilities in use today.
“ports” of browsers designed for desktops or set-top boxes that are decidedly closer to desktops than mobile phones.
Solving these challenges means that the web pages need to be adapted to fit device constraints and, while waiting for web sites to update their content to be standards compliant, handle malformed content gracefully. Jataayu has defined a rendering mechanism, Adaptive Rendering Technology - ART®, which provides the most usable adaptation of web pages for mobile phones. ART® provides the flexibility to select a rendering mechanism best suited for the variety of device capabilities in use today and also provide for a continuous enhancement of adaptation algorithms.

	Jataayu Client Framework Jataayu Client Framework (JCF®) is the foundation on which all Jataayu’s handset products are built. JCF® is designed to strike a fine balance between high levels of portability and standards compliance with contrasting customer need to extensively customize the product.		JCF® : JCF® is a proven framework that has been ported on over 12 platforms ranging from sophisticated smartphones to basic cordless phones and spanning a very wide range of mobile feature phones in between.
JCF allows customers to implement Jataayu’s products on their handsets, with a look and feel, which is completely homogenous with the rest of the applications on the handset, while not having to worry about meeting standards, clearing conformance tests, and operator requirements. It is well recognized that a consistent look and feel across all handset applications makes them easier to use and promotes use of the applications. JCF makes it possible for a consistent look and feel across the handset to be taken even to content based screens, like browser pages for example. JCF is a proven framework that has been ported on over 12 platforms ranging from sophisticated smartphones to basic cordless phones and spanning a very wide range of mobile feature phones.

Architecture

jB5, Jataayu’s HTML browser product, is architected to extend the excellence of its earlier WAP 1.x and WAP 2.0 browsers to the HTML world.

jB5 can be delivered to meet, where required, WAP 1.x only, WAP 2.0, HTML or full Web browser functionality in increasing levels of sophistication. The combined WAP and HTML browser provides excellent support for WAP standards including support for WAP 1.x and WAP 2.0 protocols and content types. It meets requirements from leading operators around the world, while continuing to deliver powerful web browsing functions. This lets handset manufacturers use a single browser to meet all their requirements.

External content handlers can be easily integrated to quickly add support for additional content types including video, PDFs and Flash. jB5 is architected to meet demanding platform requirements of co-operative multi-tasking from low-mid end processor speeds. Its ability to time-slice complex operations common to the web world allows a significantly wider range of devices to provide web-browsing functionality.

jB5 Features

Multiple browsers in one
jB5 packs the operator requirements of full WAP support and consumer needs for HTML support, in one efficient package. Extensive support for both OMA and W3C standards makes jB5 the ideal Web browser for Mobile devices.

Extensible, powerful plugin support
jB5 supports multiple levels of plugins to let platform providers, ODMs, OEMs and handset manufacturers to harness the power of the browser to other applications as well as extend the browser to include additional features. Read-Only and Read-Write plugin definitions allow need based access to browser facilities.

Secure
Support for full transport level security algorithms WTLS, SSL and TLS, as well as support for class 1, 2 and 3 secure authentication mechanisms, deliver maximum security to applications.

Efficient
jB5 provides one of the most efficient packaging of either a WAP or HTML browser individually or together. jB5 brings the benefits of full HTML browsing to a larger class of devices and lets manufacturers deliver higher functionality without significantly increasing phone capabilities.

Multi-mode adaptation
jB5 provides ART based, very usable, fit-to-display-width rendering which allows page viewing without horizontal scrolling at all. It also provides Natural mode rendering to see screens in a Virtual Desktop view. jB5 also has a Text Only mode which allows some very quick browsing without taking either the time or the bandwidth to download images, when they are not required by the user. ART provides full flexibility to add more rendering modes, as and when, device characteristics make them necessary.

Touch screen support
Full support for touch screen based devices as well as keypad only devices makes jB5 effective on both mobile-phone and PDA form factor devices.

Operator specifications support
jB5 is built on the JCF which is the foundation for all Jataayu’s handset products. Apart from basic platform functionality, JCF enables customers to implement Jataayu’s products on their handsets without having to worry about meeting standards, clearing conformance tests, and operator requirements. Jataayu has successfully met operator specific requirements of Tier1 carriers in a number of countries in Europe and Asia, including China.

Other features

jB5 supports all the common browser features like

• Bookmarks
• History
• Caching
• Full cookie support
• Content download
• Multiple character sets
• Compressed pages
• UAprof
• Push Inbox
• Multiple windows

and many more

All features are naturally selectable individually, to fine tune memory footprints, to meet target requirements.