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Opera Mini Approved for Inclusion in App Store
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ZOMG!!! I have it and it's "gathering font data" I can't wait to see it going! I'll post back with details.
I think it's terrible. It's clunky and the pages don't resize properly. Zooming in and out is tedious and jittery. I don't really see a speed difference.
Safari wins.
Safari wins.
Posting this from my ipod touch. It is hella fast. As of now safari is going in a folder and this is replacing it. Pinch zoom kinda sucks though.
Sleazy E said:
If you're on wifi or have a good 3G connection then safari is better. Opera Mini is much faster than safari when you're on edge. I'll keep it on my iPhone for when I'm in an area without 3G.
Needs work. You can't tap the top status bar to return to the top of the page which can get irritating, double tapping to zoom out is somewhat of a hit and miss (I find myself tapping 4 & 6 times to get it to work, and it doesn't format to text like safari does when zooming in so you end up scrolling all over the place. The title of the page your on remains there when your scrolling down a page which is a waste of real estate in my opinion. Also it would be nice to use multitouch every once and a while, you know like pinch to zoom...
Hopefully things will get better with time because I could see this being useful when your in a congested area and download speed is slow.
As of now, i'm sticking with Safari because it's just so much smoother and pleasant to use.
Hopefully things will get better with time because I could see this being useful when your in a congested area and download speed is slow.
As of now, i'm sticking with Safari because it's just so much smoother and pleasant to use.
I downloaded it onto my 3GS and tried it out on wifi, 3G, and Edge. It's alright. YouTube doesn't work, quicktime videos doesn't work, and mp4 videos are automatically opened in Safari lol. There's no zoom control as you only have one zoom setting. But hey, it's fast!
ClaireL said:
I bought it for my iPhone and it was just updated for the iPad. It's great having it on the iPad and not having to switch screens to change tabs. Also if you disable ads it's faster than safari.
Quick but some problems with page renderings / CSS ???
Seeing as 3G is basically useless here in Boulder, CO (with 3G turned on we get dropped calls, missed / delayed voice mails etc) it will be great for light surfing on good old edge when I'm out and about.
I have noticed that it doesn't render some pages correctly - pinches a paragraph on a site I'm working on and the text is rendered as a long column. Does the same on another Drupal site I designed with a image / video carousel. The carousel doesn't seem to work at all: the arrows that switch the images cause the page to just reload and not switch images.
The zooming is funky: there appears to be no intermediate view, you see the entire page (basically little squiggly lines in place of the text it seems) then you zoom in to see the large text. Guess it's part of their compression technology???
Overall, a great browser for the poor bastards like myself who are stuck in 2007 with Edge. I will definitely be using it out in the field - thanks Opera!
Seeing as 3G is basically useless here in Boulder, CO (with 3G turned on we get dropped calls, missed / delayed voice mails etc) it will be great for light surfing on good old edge when I'm out and about.
I have noticed that it doesn't render some pages correctly - pinches a paragraph on a site I'm working on and the text is rendered as a long column. Does the same on another Drupal site I designed with a image / video carousel. The carousel doesn't seem to work at all: the arrows that switch the images cause the page to just reload and not switch images.
The zooming is funky: there appears to be no intermediate view, you see the entire page (basically little squiggly lines in place of the text it seems) then you zoom in to see the large text. Guess it's part of their compression technology???
Overall, a great browser for the poor bastards like myself who are stuck in 2007 with Edge. I will definitely be using it out in the field - thanks Opera!
1 - Glad this was approved, out of principle.
2 - Wow, this reminds me how terrible most mobile phone browsers were before the iPhone. Speedier or not, I'd rather use the nice Safari interface any day.
2 - Wow, this reminds me how terrible most mobile phone browsers were before the iPhone. Speedier or not, I'd rather use the nice Safari interface any day.
The speed difference is a lot more noticeable on EDGE. Macrumors takes forever to load on EDGE but with Opera it feels like I'm back on 3G or Wifi.
Adjusting the text from the default small to medium really helped. Haven't read all 13 pages but is there a way to import Safari bookmarks or from the desktop into Mini?