Symbian's Magpie concept gets a new supporter in Opera, which will use its modular browser architecture to display WML and HTML data received by applications that utilize Magpie.
Opera today announced that the company supports Symbian's new technology concept, "Magpie", as a commercial solution. The same kind of customization of Opera's browser technologies that has made support for Magpie possible, has already been deployed in the new Nokia 9210i Communicator, and in addition Opera is the default browser for Symbian's reference design's as of May 2001.
"We are all very excited about Magpie here at Opera," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Opera and Magpie adds unique capabilities to Symbian's smartphones that do not exist on competing platforms like Microsoft's PocketPC and Palm OS. Opera is proud to be the first browser to support this as a commercial solution."
With Magpie, data services can be integrated within applications running on Symbian OS 7.0 or later, opening up a wealth of possibilities to link and process dynamic information for users of all categories. A business traveller might for example choose to insert his flight booking in his smartphone calendar, and if the flight is delayed, the new information will be dynamically updated in the smartphone calendar, with Opera rendering the HTML or WAP data.
Opera's Symbian OS browser is designed to be used as a 'component' within other applications so that generic Web and WAP content can be displayed within any existing user interface design. Opera's engine can link to third-party applications and create controls within their existing control hierarchy. The contents of these controls can then be set to display either local or remote Web or WAP pages. The Opera controls are fully dynamic, and if their content or size changes, the page is reformatted accordingly.
An example of a customized modular Opera component is within the mail application on the new Nokia 9210i Communicator, where HTML e-mail and attachments are displayed using Opera's browser technologies.
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