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Re: Workarounds for Opera Mini

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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.

Opera Mobile also has great text-reflow, which makes it much more usable than other mobile browsers in my mind. The approach taken by other mobile browsers for desktop websites often yield pretty bad results, and some sites (such as hackernews) are consistently broken.

Re: Workarounds for Opera Mini

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I would use Opera Mini on my old Android because it would be the only somewhat usable browser performance-wise. It is a wonderful browser and it works really well for use cases it was designed for - low-end hardware and low bandwidth limits.

What 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.

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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…

Great work!. I remember using it on a nokia long ago - worked well, even with the big limitations of the hardware.

Why haven't anybody managed to copy that feature well?

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