Palm Web Browser Pro, Handbook

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CHAPTER 1
Introducing Palm™ Web Browser Pro
Palm™ Web Browser Pro gives you access to the Internet on your Palm™
handheld.
Ease of use
Web Browser Pro is easy to use because it works much like the web browsers you
use on your desktop computer. You can enter Uniform Resource Locators (URLs,
also called web addresses), create bookmarks to mark favorite pages, save pages
for offline viewing later, and even download files directly to your handheld.
More importantly, Web Browser Pro is designed to be used on the small screen of
your handheld. It forces images to fit the handheld’s screen, it does not clutter your
screen with fancy icons, and it handles technical features (like caching and cookies)
with minimal input from you.
Speed
Web Browser Pro is designed with the knowledge that you may be viewing web
pages using a slow connection. Web Browser Pro processes each web page to make
the download as fast as possible, compressing the text, removing some large
images, and compressing other images. In addition, you can adjust preferences to
make downloading even faster.
Because wireless Internet connections tend to be slower than the wired
connections common on desktop computers, Web Browser Pro also avoids
downloading a web page when it can display that page from memory. Before it
downloads a web page, it can check with the web server to see if the content in
memory is up-to-date.
If you set the option to offer old content if it is available, when you open a web page
you’ve opened before, you’re given the choice of viewing a stored version of that
web page or connecting to the Internet to refresh the page. You can also choose to
manually confirm every connection you make to the Internet.