Polycom 1725-17693-210 Rev. A manual Overview, What is the Microbrowser

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Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Microbrowser available on SoundPoint IP 330/320, 430, 501, 550, 600, 601, and 650 desktop phones and SoundStation IP 4000 conference phone.

It also provides an introduction to XHTML and guidelines for the application development.

This chapter contains information on:

•What is the Microbrowser

•What is XHTML

•How to Create Applications

To develop an application that can run on the Microbrowser, refer to Application Development on page 2-1. To troubleshoot any problems with your applications, refer to Troubleshooting on page 3-1.

What is the Microbrowser

The Microbrowser is like any Web browser—Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox, for example—but supports only a subset of XHTML features. It can connect to Web servers hosted in the Internet or intranet and download XHTML pages. The Microbrowser supports a limited number of XHTML 1.0 features—it does not have full Web browser functionality.

The Microbrowser downloads XHTML content from a Web server into the phone’s memory, then parses the content to identify XHTML tags and renders these tags onto the phone's graphic display. The appearance of the rendered page depends on the graphical capabilities and display size of the device on which the browser is running. Complicated pages should be avoided on devices with very small displays.

The Microbrowser does not support scripting (such as JavaScript). All actions on data entered into forms is processed by the server using POST or GET methods.

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