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Can you view the REAL internet on the iphone?
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Pages render just like my laptop. iPhone IMO has the best mobile browsing experience in the business. Truly fantastic.
some sites are mobile versions (like espn.com), some are the same as the desktop version
there is no flash though on iphone
there is no flash though on iphone
There seems to be a lot of Apple users who don't want flash though. I'd prefer to have it, since many sites you need it.
how come they don't want it? Battery killer?
maybe an option where if you want it you can use it, and if you do not, then don't worry about it.
I would severely doubt this, as Apple is moving towards more standards compliant animation and video protocols (HTML5, etc.) instead. No Flash.
If it does load the mobile site scroll to the bottom and hit desktop version. Also Hulu app is almost ready. They say it is "badass"
I have no idea why some Apple people don't want it. Apple snobs??
No, more due to Adobe's inability to deliver a decent flash experience for anything other than Windows.
The website will appear as it does on the desktop unless the web page performs browser inspection, in which case you will probably get re-directed the mobile optimized version of a site.
There is little you can do about this in this case. You would have to hack your iPhone presented a different browser, or none at all
There is little you can do about this in this case. You would have to hack your iPhone presented a different browser, or none at all
No, the iPhone loads a fake internet, but it is so realistic that it is hard to believe that it is not the real internet.
(Actually, the iPhone does load pages pretty close to what it would look like on a desktop browser. Except for flash pages, as was mentioned above.)
(Actually, the iPhone does load pages pretty close to what it would look like on a desktop browser. Except for flash pages, as was mentioned above.)
A website loading as a mobile version has nothing to do with the iPhone and everything to do with the website. To answer your question as simply as possible: yes. Flash and other crap like that isn't the real internet, by definition, so it really has no place on a mobile device anyway.
App Store Killer. If flash comes out, people will just play games web based flash games. No more apps bought from App store.
I would say this is a pretty narrow assessment. There is flash for computers, and many flash games for computers, but the non-flash PC gaming industry hasn't died.
The renderer is the same as desktop safari, same codebase "WebKit" so it will render the same way (though there are no java or flash plugins so that could affect some sites)
There is an issue with some sites looking at the user agent string the browser sends and sending mobile formatted pages instead of the full one and sometimes that's very irritating. Sometimes it's very nice (when the site is especially made for the iPhone it's often better than the original desktop site in terms of usability, even if you weren't on the iPhone lmao)
So basically, the rendering is fantastic and nothing like sh**ty wap browsing you're probably thinking of.
Flash on Mac OS has always sucked and will most likely continue to do so for some time. If a current generation mac has hardware trouble using flash, I'd imagine that a much less powerful phone running on the same OS base would make the experience even worse.