For many many sites it really doesn't matter if they don't support 3rd world countries - what value do we gain from working hard to support people with no money to spend? Advertisers aren't interested in them, we can't sell anything to them. It sounds selfish but society is based on exactly that way of thinking.
Opera Mini is also relatively unique in having great text-reflow which is an important feature for people with bad eyesight, even in rich countries.
Workarounds for Opera Mini
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#52What I find useless about it is that they try to give efforts in rendering the designs of the sites and break them instead. I think they should adopt Firefox Reader View's approach, that is ditch the design rendering completely and instead focus on displaying only the content and its graphics to the best of its ability.
Re: Workarounds for Opera Mini
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opera Mini is also relatively unique in having great text-reflow which is an important feature for people with bad eyesight, even in rich countries.
Thanks. :) I obsessed quite a bit about this about 10 years ago. Yes, it's been 10 years since the important things in Opera Mini transcoding/system design happened. At first it enabled web browsing on new expensive Nokia, Sony Ericsson, etc phones primarily in Europe/Russia, then the focus shifted to Africa and Asia/India. Back then I figured: when when you are architecturally forced to throw out compliance with lot…
Why haven't anybody managed to copy that feature well?