A Finnish SME has developed a standards-based virtual browser for Web application developers to create browser, operating system & hardware independent Web applications. It is being used to deliver standard user interface components into browsers regardless of browser type, version or platform. It provides a common way to create user interface for all of those. It also gives developers a way to control the features & standards compliance of end users’ browsers. The company seeks licensees.

The virtual browser technology developed by a Finnish company eases Web application development significantly.

Because of this virtual browser technology, a Web application can be run with identical results in any hardware, operating system or browser environment. This enables Web application developers to develop, test and support their Web application without testing it in multiple hardware, operating system or browser environments.

This technology is particularly beneficial to Web applications developers, who need rich user interface feature applications. The use of virtual browser technology significantly lowers the cost of Web application development and maintenance. It also enables much faster time-to-market.

One of the greatest advantages of virtual browser technology over the technologies like Flash, Java or ActiveX, is the fact that virtual browser technology doesnt require installation of any additional software or plug-ins. Virtual browser technology also enables rich user interface features to be developed with existing tools and standards, like DOM (Document Object Model), HTML (hypertext mark-up language), DHTML (dynamic HTML), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and XHML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) without any browser-specific detection or code changes. Virtual browser technology is compatible with all known application server architectures including J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition), ASP (active server page), PHP (hypertext pre-processor), .NET and document delivery methods. Because of these features implementation barrier of virtual browser technology is extremely low.

Innovative Aspects:

A standards-based virtual browser enables to create browser, operating system and hardware independent Web applications.

Main Advantages:

- Due to the small amount of code needed (about 3% of normal UI (User Interface) code) it reduces development time and costs significantly.

- Because the development, testing and maintenance can be done in a single browser, the use of this technology reduces the cost of development of additional browsers, operating systems and hardware down to ZERO.

- Because there is no need to test Web application again when the new browser is released, the use of this technology reduces the cost of supporting browser upgrades down to ZERO.

- Virtual Browser is a standards, DOM2, based technology, and there for it is very easy to adopt.

- Virtual Browser is a very small and highly optimised DHTML-based product, tested with extensive mathematical methods, it doesnt need any plug-ins.

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