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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?
Even Opera on the desktop doesn't work so hot with Gmail.
First impressions: 1. it's very responsive. Much snappier than Safari; the difference is very noticeable. 2. pages download much quicker 3. zooming in and out is faster, but you only have two zoom levels. If you "pinch to zoom" it immediately zooms in all the way. 4. the home screen with 9 favorites works great 5. it's a little buggy (clicks don't always register) 6. killer feature #1: it automatically stores the ent…
So Opera Mini for rapid access to the read-only web, Safari for deep access to the read/write web. Having the right tool for the job: why "duplication of functionality" is a good thing.
Opera: Irrelevant on yet another platform. Opera mini is great on a normal phone, but silly and pointless on a platform with with a real browser like the iPhone OS and Android.
Not everybody has great broadband mobile connections.
Android has a very good browser with WiFi, but it is totally useless with my Edge connection. Opera on the other hand is amazingly fast with any connection I have tested.
YMMV
I look at this as kind of amusing; my previous phone could only run Opera Mini, and the prospect of having a real web browser was one of the things which drove me to the iPhone. Mobile Safari's UI and its actual support for decently rendering pages (coupled with the privacy concerns Opera Mini's proxy system naturally raises) are so far ahead that I'm a bit surprised anyone would actually choose to use Opera Mini --…
I look at this as kind of amusing; my previous phone could only run Opera Mini, and the prospect of having a real web browser was one of the things which drove me to the iPhone. Mobile Safari's UI and its actual support for decently rendering pages (coupled with the privacy concerns Opera Mini's proxy system naturally raises) are so far ahead that I'm a bit surprised anyone would actually choose to use Opera Mini --…
Well put. Well people started making a fuss about Opera Mini getting approved I couldn't understand why. Safari on the iPhone is the best mobile browser out there in terms of both specification conformance and performance.
I live in a city covered by 3G but when I from in my home town it's almost impossible to suft the web with Safari, while it was ok with Opera Mini on a Nokia N70 phone.
Opera Mini is surely not a drop in replacement for Safari Mobile, but it surely is a useful tool, much more useful than most of the other top-downloads in the Appstore.
I look at this as kind of amusing; my previous phone could only run Opera Mini, and the prospect of having a real web browser was one of the things which drove me to the iPhone. Mobile Safari's UI and its actual support for decently rendering pages (coupled with the privacy concerns Opera Mini's proxy system naturally raises) are so far ahead that I'm a bit surprised anyone would actually choose to use Opera Mini --…
I look at this as kind of amusing; my previous phone could only run Opera Mini, and the prospect of having a real web browser was one of the things which drove me to the iPhone. Mobile Safari's UI and its actual support for decently rendering pages (coupled with the privacy concerns Opera Mini's proxy system naturally raises) are so far ahead that I'm a bit surprised anyone would actually choose to use Opera Mini --…
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I would love it if shake-to-undo undid this. Hate when I tap it accidentally.
you never shake your phone accidentally?
Thus, being able to shake to undo the action of auto-scrolling to top of the screen would be a nice solution.
First impressions: 1. It renders pages in exactly the same way it does on my Blackberry. 2. The UI is just as awkward. Amazing.
Friend of mine: "Opera Mini's flagrant disregard for UI conventions would get any other app rejected." Pretty much sums up my thoughts. It's bad on so many levels and somehow received special treatment.
My first thought is that plenty of games have UIs built from scratch. I think the conventions are just that: conventions.