Opera’s new Android beta is out, and it includes some pretty big changes

Post by exterm » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

ZoFreX wrote: post #17

infinita740 wrote: post #15

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I just downloaded it and tested that, it's not present, zooming is now as bad as in other android browsers (but some of the HN comments are in bigger size than others so there is no need to zoom, it's quite a strange behavior though) Also as another user pointed it, tabs on the top is not practical and unreachable (especially on big devices like samsung GS3)

How about the "scrolling guides" when you're zoomed? Not sure if there's a proper name for that, but with Opera when I zoomed and the text reflowed, it would lock me to vertical scrolling only as long as I don't wiggle too far horizontally. Easily my favourite thing about it.

Post by abraham » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 7:26 PM UTC

dave1010uk wrote: post #11

It will be interesting to see how many (if any) HTML features they've dropped by switching to WebKit/Chromium. CanIUse [0] shows the latest Presto-based Opera having the following features that Chrome on Android doesn't: getUserMedia/Stream API Shared Web Workers CSS3 object-fit/object-position Color input type Drag and Drop Datalist element WebGL - 3D Canvas graphics (partial support) [0] http://caniuse.com/#compare…

Post by Freestyler_3 » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

yareally wrote: post #24

veeti wrote: post #10

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Chrome for Android lets you move between tabs easily by swiping from the left and right corners of the screen (and swiping in general is used for tab navigation in Android). Maybe Opera could rip that off.

I hope they go for the quick toggles (touching the sides of the phone/tablet if enabled) like the stock browser has, but either option is better than none.