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Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by barredo »

chrisbolt wrote: post #17
barredo wrote: post #8

Link to the AppStore http://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637... — It's not as fast as I expected, but still For now: "un-zommed" content is unreadable, for instance, nytimes.com in Opera http://cl.ly/JIP vs Safari Mobile: http://cl.ly/J9i (which is also unreadable, but well, I can distinct letters)

Both of your screenshots appear to be of Opera.

Fixed that :-O

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by sirn »

stanleydrew wrote: post #20
sirn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think of Opera Mini as an interactive image viewer. They interpret all JavaScript on the server side and sent result back to the client using OBML[1]. Or at least that's how it works on other device. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

Interesting. The section on JavaScript support is not encouraging actually. Can anyone report on attempting to use a js-heavy web-app through Opera Mini, e.g. Gmail?

From my experience with Opera Mini in Windows Mobile (since it's still not available in App Store), Gmail just fallback to the Basic HTML mode. It's safe to assume most JavaScript-heavy web apps won't going to work at all.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by niravs »

I'm shocked.

The app is still somewhat crippled though, all links from other Apps can only be opened in Safari. So, not the same as switching a browser on your desktop or laptop. Nonetheless it seems like a step in the right direction.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by yanw »

niravs wrote: post #25

I'm shocked. The app is still somewhat crippled though, all links from other Apps can only be opened in Safari. So, not the same as switching a browser on your desktop or laptop. Nonetheless it seems like a step in the right direction.

I'm not sure it's surprising, I suspect Opera-mini's nature of preprocessing and compression might have helped it get approved because of the bandwidth saving promise for AT&T.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by jackowayed »

stanleydrew wrote: post #20
sirn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think of Opera Mini as an interactive image viewer. They interpret all JavaScript on the server side and sent result back to the client using OBML[1]. Or at least that's how it works on other device. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

Interesting. The section on JavaScript support is not encouraging actually. Can anyone report on attempting to use a js-heavy web-app through Opera Mini, e.g. Gmail?

It's not great at AJAX. My brother has a Blackberry and mainly uses Opera, and the fact that Sporcle(.com) worked on my iPhone shocked him. Apparently Opera can't do onchange.

Gmail just gives the normal HTML mobile version, like it did in the bad old days before iPhone.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by danudey »

barredo wrote: post #8

Link to the AppStore http://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637... — It's not as fast as I expected, but still For now: "un-zommed" content is unreadable, for instance, nytimes.com in Opera http://cl.ly/JIP vs Safari Mobile: http://cl.ly/J9i (which is also unreadable, but well, I can distinct letters)

Frustratingly, it's not available on the Canadian App Store. I wonder if there's a reason for that, or if it just hasn't propagated yet.
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