Palm WEB BROWSER PRO User Manual

Palm

™

Web Browser Pro

Handbook

© 2002 Palm, Inc. All rights reserved. HotSync, Graffiti, and Palm OS are registered trademarks of Palm, Inc. Palm, VersaMail, and the Palm logo are trademarks of Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc. uses the Bluetooth trademarks under express license from Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A. All other brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

Palm, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from the use of this handbook.

Palm, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties which may arise through the use of this software. Palm, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction, dead battery, or repairs. Be sure to make backup copies of all important data on other media to protect against data loss.

IMPORTANT Please read the End User Software License Agreement with this product before using the accompanying software program(s). Using any part of the software indicates that you accept the terms of the End User Software License Agreement.

PN: 406-4544A-US

About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1: Introducing Palm™ Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Ease of use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

What Web Browser Pro looks like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Getting help in Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2: Installing and Opening Palm™ Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Handheld system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Opening Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Ending a modem or cell phone connection to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Uninstalling Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 3: Browsing the Web on Your Handheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Visiting a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Following a link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Returning to a web page you just visited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Returning to your home page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Downloading a file to your handheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Stopping the download process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Refreshing a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Viewing information about a web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Disconnecting from and connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 4: Copying and Pasting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Copying text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pasting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

iii

Contents

Chapter 5: Communicating with Other Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Sending e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Beaming a URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E-mailing a URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 6: Bookmarking Your Favorite Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Adding a bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Visiting a bookmarked page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Editing information about a bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Deleting a bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 7: Saving Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Saving a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Opening a saved page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Editing information about a saved page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Deleting a saved page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 8: Finding Web Pages You Recently Visited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Returning to a page you visited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Clearing the History list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 9: Customizing Palm™ Web Browser Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Changing the default size of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Changing your home page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Changing how images are downloaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing link colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Enabling or disabling autofill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Enabling or disabling cookies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Enabling or disabling JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Changing the size and content of the cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Controlling how Web Browser Pro accesses the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Changing network preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Changing the host server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

About This Book

Palm™ Web Browser Pro is your Palm™ handheld’s gateway to the web. The Palm™ Web Browser Pro Handbook can help you learn to use Web Browser Pro to visit web pages. Later, you can use this handbook as a reference for less common tasks, such as changing your home page.

The Palm™ Web Browser Pro Handbook makes the following assumptions:

■ You know how to use the basic functions of your handheld, such as the basic

applications and HotSync

■ You know how to enter text and select onscreen items using the available

controls on your handheld, such as a built-in keyboard, a Graffiti an icon area, or a navigator button.

■ You have all the elements you need to connect to the Internet. For example, you

may need a data-enabled phone, an Internet service provider, and so on.

■ You know how to configure your handheld to connect to the Internet.

For information about any aspect of your handheld, please consult the documentation that came with your handheld, or go to

technology.

writing area,

www.palm.com/support.

About This Book

Ease of use

CHAPTER 1

Introducing Palm™ Web Browser Pro

Palm™ Web Browser Pro gives you access to the Internet on your Palm™ handheld.

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.

Chapter 1 Introducing Palm™ Web Browser Pro

Security

Web Browser Pro uses advanced encryption technology from Certicom. Encryption makes your data unreadable by anyone but the intended recipient.

This encryption technology is used to secure the transmission of sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, e-mail messages, and passwords. Data is protected both when sent from your handheld over the network and when coming in from the Internet directly to your handheld. For more information about Certicom’s encryption technology, visit the Certicom web site:

It’s not unusual to experience an additional delay of several seconds when a transaction is being encrypted.

What Web Browser Pro looks like

Title bar

Action icons

URL Entry field

www.certicom.com

Web content

The Web Browser Pro screen has four parts:

■ The title bar displays the name of the current web page or shows the status of

actions, such as “Searching...”, “Saving...”, “Receiving...”, and so forth.

■ The action icons allow you to navigate in the browser, to refresh pages, and to

bookmark pages.

■ The URL Entry field allows you to quickly enter web page addresses.

■ The rest of the screen is devoted to displaying the content of the web page.

You can perform other actions by tapping items in menus. Like in other Palm OS®

applications, when you select the title bar, it is replaced by the menu bar.

enu bar

Menu items

Getting help in Web Browser Pro

Help is available in the following locations:

■ Most dialog boxes in Web Browser Pro have help about the options in the dialog

box. To see that information, tap the Tips icon .

Getting help in Web Browser Pro

Tap the Tips icon for more information on a dialog box.

■ For an onscreen keyboard to help you input text, open the menus, tap Edit, and

then tap Keyboard.

■ For help with drawing Graffiti

characters, open the menus, tap Edit, and then

tap Graffiti Help.

NOTE

support Graffiti writing.

Graffiti Help may not apply to your handheld; some handhelds do not

Chapter 1 Introducing Palm™ Web Browser Pro

Palm™ Web Browser Pro is easy to install and open.

Handheld system requirements

To install Web Browser Pro, your handheld must have the following:

CHAPTER 2

Installing and Opening

Palm™ Web Browser Pro

■ Palm OS

■ 16 megabytes (MB) of total RAM with 1.2MB of free RAM available.

■ A way to connect to the Internet. For example, one of the following:

– A radio built into your handheld

– A wireless connection made through peripheral hardware attached to your

– A connection using a cell phone and appropriate software, such as Palm

– A modem for your handheld

NOTE Web Browser Pro is not supported on the following Palm™ handhelds:

Palm™ m100 series handhelds, Palm™ m500 series handhelds, and Palm™ i700 series handhelds.

software version 4.1 or later

handheld

Mobile Connectivity software or a Palm Bluetooth card

To find the Palm OS version number:

1. Open the Applications Launcher.

2. Open the menus.

3. Tap Info in the App menu.

4. Tap Ver s i on .

Chapter 2 Installing and Opening Palm™ Web Browser Pro

To find the amount of RAM:

1. Open the Applications Launcher.

2. Open the menus.

3. Tap Info in the App menu.

4. Tap Size.

In the line beginning “Free Space” are two numbers. The second number is the total amount of RAM available on your handheld. The first number is the amount of free RAM available. If the first number can be rounded up to 1.2MB or more, your handheld has enough RAM to support Web Browser Pro.

Installing Web Browser Pro

To use Web Browser Pro, you must install the software files located on the Software Essentials CD-ROM.

To install Web Browser Pro (Windows):

1. Insert the Software Essentials CD-ROM into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

2. From the categories listed on the left side of the Install screen click the

Communications tab, click Web Browser Pro, and follow the onscreen instructions.

3. Connect your handheld to the cradle/cable and press the HotSync

button ™.

To install Web Browser Pro (Mac computer):

1. Insert the Software Essentials CD-ROM into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

2. Open the Software Essentials folder, open the Communications folder,

double-click the Web Browser Pro Installer icon, and follow the onscreen instructions.

3. Connect your handheld to the cradle/cable and press the HotSync button .

Opening Web Browser Pro

Web Browser Pro works just like any other application on your handheld.

To open Web Browser Pro:

1. Open the Applications Launcher.

2. Select All in the Category pick list in the upper-right corner of the screen.

3. Tap the Web Browser Pro icon .

Web Browser Pro may take a moment to load the first page.

NOTE

running Web Browser Pro and that you’ve successfully connected to the Internet.

The rest of the instructions in this handbook assume that you’re already

Ending a modem or cell phone connection to the Internet

If your connection to the Internet is established through a modem or cell phone, you need to end the call to end your connection to the Internet.

To end a modem or cell phone connection:

1. Open the menus.

2. Tap Disconnect from the Page menu.

NOTE

when you are done using Web Browser Pro in order to reduce usage charges.

You should always consider disconnecting from your modem or cell phone

Uninstalling Web Browser Pro

Web Browser Pro is easy to uninstall from your handheld.

To uninstall Web Browser Pro:

1. Open the Applications Launcher.

2. Open the menus.

3. Tap Delete in the App menu.

4. Tap Web Pro.

5. Tap Delete

A confirmation dialog box appears.

6. Tap Yes.

7. If a dialog box appears, asking you to reset your handheld, tap Reset.

IMPORTANT

pages, and browsing history.

Uninstalling Web Browser Pro also removes your bookmarks, saved

Chapter 2 Installing and Opening Palm™ Web Browser Pro

Just like the web browser you use on your desktop computer, Palm™ Web Browser Pro lets you browse the web in several ways:

■ Visit a web page by entering its URL.

■ Visit another web page by tapping a link.

■ Go back to the pages you already visited by using the Back and Forward icons.

Visiting a web page

You can visit web pages using the Open URL dialog box or using the URL Entry field.

To visit a web page using the Open URL dialog box:

1. Tap the Open URL icon .

CHAPTER 3

Browsing the Web on Your Handheld

2. Enter the URL of the web page you want to visit.

The field in the Open URL dialog box already contains the characters “www.” If the web address you want to enter starts with another set of letters, just drag over the “www.” and backspace to erase them.

Tap buttons to enter other characters commonly used in web addresses.

(Optional) Tap buttons to complete the web address

3. Tap Go.

Chapter 3 Browsing the Web on Your Handheld

During the short delay while the new page is being downloaded, the title bar displays information about the download process.

To visit a web page using the URL Entry field:

1. Tap the URL Entry field at the top of the screen.

Tells you what Web Browser Pro is doing (receiving data, sending data)

Indicates how much data has been downloaded so far (in kilobytes)

Activity icon shows you that Web Browser Pro is busy

Select the URL field and enter the URL

2. Enter the URL in the field.

3. Tap G o.

TIP

entered before in the URL Entry field, Web Browser Pro completes the URL for you. For more information on autofill, see “Enabling or disabling autofill” in Chapter 9.

Following a link

Many web pages contain links, which are text or pictures that when clicked, take you to another web page or to another part of the same page. Like many other web browsers, Web Browser Pro highlights these links by underlining them.

If autofill is enabled, when you enter the first few letters of a URL that you’ve

Links

To follow a link:

■ Tap the link.

+ 36 hidden pages