Researching various new phones on AT&T, the internet browsing terms confuse me. The cheapest phone says “yes”, another says “full HTML”, and the best says “Safari”. I assume “yes” means it shows some webpages and others as only text. Full HTML, I assume, is full webpage browsing, and Safari is…?
Am I even close with my neophyte understanding?
There’s a cut-down version of web pages called “WAP”, which was indended for phones and other devices with snall screens and limited buttons. Perhaps the cheap phone can only display these…?
Safari is a web browser, comparable to Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome etc.
It is the web browser that the iPhone uses.
Would “full HTML” imply you see full webpages? …Or, is there no substitute for the real thing, like Safari?
Exactly FULL HTML means that the phone is capable of displaying ALL the content of a webpage.
For instance on some they may cut off things like Google Adsense ads.
Remember just because it’s capable of displaying the page, doesn’t mean it will render it correctly. If the HTML is sloppy written and non-compliant it may display a messy webpage
Not to mention that a lot of websites are utterly dependent on (java)script. Even a browser which is 100% html capable may totally fail on script, or implement it pretty weakly. the end result is still an unusable page.
AFAIK, WAP is a dead end 1998 technology.