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Unavailable HTML in AvantGo Client 4.x

AvantGo Client 4.x does not support any of the following HTML 3.2 elements:

  • Frames
  • Imagemaps
  • Using width= and height= elements to resize an image
  • Most JavaScript (setting cookies, rollover graphics, animated page elements, etc.)
  • <FONT=...> or <BASEFONT=...>
  • <I> or <EM> (they show up as bold instead)
  • Animated GIFs
  • Java applets
  • Shockwave or other plug-ins
  • <BLINK>
  • No version of Cascading Style Sheets — neiter external, embedded, nor inline
  • Layers
  • The type attribute for <UL> and <OL> lists. Nested list items use the same bullet style or numbering style as top-level lists.
  • The <HR> element's noshade attribute. Horizontal rules are always displayed as an unshaded line.
  • Most of the text markup elements are unsupported because the fonts on mobile devices do not support them: <U>, <STRIKE>, <BIG>, <SMALL>, <SUB>, <SUP>, and <DFN> are not available.
  • The form file input element (INPUT TYPE=file...) is not supported.
  • The Anchor (<A>) element's rel, rev, and title attributes.
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If you do include any of these elements, it will not break anything. AvantGo Client 4.x will just politely ingore them.

For more complete details on the HTML tags supported by AvantGo Client 4.x, see APPENDIX B. HTML 3.2 support in AvantGo Client 4.x.



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