Blazer (web browser)

Blazer 1 was released in November 2000, and differentiated itself from other Palm OS web browsers at the time by its fast performance, progressive rendering, and support of WAP and i-Mode in addition to HTML.

It utilized a proxy server which provided transcoding and image conversion optimized for small, underpowered handheld devices.

Blazer 2 added the ability to use proxy servers, SSL, 16 bit color, and an improved user interface.

New features included faster loading, an improved UI, VPN with an extra plugin, the saving of image and HTML files to a memory card or the device, homepages, bookmarks, and the ability to start on the last viewed page.

Blazer 4 also featured support for web standards including HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, WML 1.3, SSL 3.0, cHTML, JavaScript 1.5, CSS 1.0 and 2.0 (partial), GIF (both still and animated, along with transparency), JPEG, PNG, BMP and Cookies.

The most significant addition to 4.3 was the fast mode option, which removes images and/or disables cascading style sheets.

At this time, Blazer does not support Adobe Flash Player - meaning you cannot view popular videos on sites such as ESPN or YouTube.