Blazer
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What is Blazer?
Blazer is the web browser that Palm bundles on all of its current handhelds and smartphones. Blazer is built upon the NetFront Core that is developed by ACCESS Co., Inc. This is the same core that powers the Clie handhelds by Sony.
Blazer provides the following features:
- HTML 4.01, xHTML 1.0, cHTML, WML 1.3
- SSL 3.0
- HTTP 1.1
- JavaScript 1.5
- CSS 1.0 & 2.0 (partial)
- Images: GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP
- Cookies
- Streaming media support
- Save images and webpages for viewing offline
History
Blazer 1.0
Blazer existed since May 2001. Blazer versions 1.0 ran on PalmOS 3.1 and up and required 8 mb of RAM. These versions supported HTML, WAP and i-mode and required a connection to Handspring's proxy server.
Blazer 2.0
Blazer 2.0 was released in 2002 and added support for 16-bit color and SSL.
Blazer 3.0
Blazer 3.0 was released with the Treo 600. This was a significant update because Palm, Inc. completely recoded the core of the browser that handles communications and content to the NetFront Core that is used in the Clie PDAs by Sony.
Blazer 3.0 offered proxy-less communication (or the option to use a standard web proxy), full HTML support with basic CSS and scripting.
Blazer 4.0
The Blazer 4.0 release is the latest release. When Blazer 4.0/4.1 was released on the Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2 and the Treo 650 it supported many of the features above. This release of the browser was unstable when using some of the advanced features if not in Wide Page Mode. Blazer 4.0/4.1 also added a new UI and a VPN Connect option.
Blazer 4.3 was released to the Treo 650, LifeDrive and TX. This added support for an optimized mode that could load pages without CSS or images.
Blazer 4.5 was released in May 2006 along with the Palm Treo 700p. Blazer 4.5 included quicker page rendering as well as streaming support through the Kinoma Media Player helper application.
Devices
The following versions of Blazer shipped on the following devices:
- Treo 600
- Blazer 3.0
- Treo 650
- Blazer 4.3
- Treo 700p
- Blazer 4.5
Blazer Tips
Blazer Troubleshooting
- Why do I get error messages regarding cookies or encryption when they are enabled in Blazer?
- Why does Blazer take a long time to start sometimes?
Sources
Basic Blazer functions and history obtained from personal knowledge and the Blazer Wikipedia article, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazer_%28web_browser%29.
