Opera Mini Approved for Inclusion in App Store

iphones4evry1 said:
Today is a great day in history. :)

Opera is to Safari what Firefox is to Internet Explorer.

Today is a great day. :)

Oh, and scrolling around the page is FAST too! I have a 3G and when I move around a large webpage fast, it seems like a 3GS - no gray squares and slow lagging. It's quick!
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Spare the false analogy.

IE is buggy and non-standard.

Apple is driving standards and now Firefox is in catch up mode.
 
Pakaku said:
Now lets see Firefox Mini come to fruition.
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Wake me up when Firefox rewrites itself in Cocoa. You have a better shot at seeing Camino.

All parts that depend on Java, if any, will need to be rewritten.

Ditch XUL and move your UI to Apple proper.
 
Opera rules

opera really is by far the best browser for slower connections.
the auto-compression and turbo mode means it outperforms safari and chrome, easily.
i'm in india, and usually opera is the only browser that works. when my broadband is really humming, safari loads, but opera is always faster.
 
This is the worst app i have ever installed.

None of the websites that i run render correctly even though they render correctly on every major browser i have run.

This alone is a reason for this app to have been buried. Apple should never have let this out of the cage. I refuse to add more junk code to my websites to make it work the way we do with ie6.

And the zooming, discraceful.

Opera got on their high horse over the app store approval process only to deliver garbage through it.

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Feels sort of icky compared to Safari. I actually find Safari to be faster. Deleted after the first minute of installing it.
 
bbotte said:
OS 4.0 gets 134/160

Safari seems just as fast to me.
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This score tells me that OS 4.0 [presuming you mean iPhone OS 4.0] will see marked improvement to that score when it catches up to WebKit nightlies which is now at 139/160.

9 of those missing points deals with MP3/Ogg support missing which are no more part of the spec than AAC/H.264: so actually it's 139/151 and your browser is 134/151.

What's still lacking includes:

Text-level semantics elements missing:
  • time element

Forms elements/attributes missing:
  • autocomplete input attribute
  • keygen element
  • output element
  • meter element

User interaction missing:
  • hidden attribute
  • Undo manager
 
I installed it on my iPhone this morning and so far very impressed with the speed of paged rendering. However before it replaces Safari as my main iPhone browser it needs to receive an update. Primarily spell check and an improved zoom of pages wen they first load. Currently it is not possible to see text on very text heavy websites.

Hopefully it gets better with time.
 
I was so excited.....

I couldn't wait to try the opera browser on my iphone and needless to say I am greatly underwhelmed. Yes most sites do load faster with opera but often not all content loads and more importantly sometimes text gets cut off. Also startup time seems to be slower with Opera. My iphone also froze while I tried to add something to the favorites page.

I am also having problems with certain mobile sites. For example mobile.macrumors.com and CNN fails to work with Opera. I also cannot access my bank accounts using mobile websites.

My biggest peeve is the reduced real estate available to view a page. Both the webpage title bar and toolbar are bigger than the ones in Safari. When the address bar is present there is just a 1inch bar worth of viewable webpage in landscape mode. I find that I am panning, scrolling and zooming in/out much more with Opera than with Safari. On the bright side panning and scrolling seems to be faster but not by much.

Needles to say I am not going to be using Opera at all for now and may keep it on my phone just as a backup browser for when I have that lethargically slow 3G connection. Perhaps Apple allowed Opera on the appstore only after they realized how much of a non-threat this is to safari.
 
Performance is certainly there. It's not as good at Safari when viewing sites not designed for mobile devices (i.e. those that require zooming), but works just as well for those that are. I'm not sure what browser string Opera is sending but it looks like sites rendered for mobiles may not understand it yet, e.g.

when going to the BBC news website http://news.bbc.co.uk, Opera displays the full sized version which requires zooming. Safari gets redirected to http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile. Of course you could just enter http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile in Opera until it's updated server side.

All in all, it's a nice alternative and can only get better.
 
doesn't support standard copy-paste, opera has implemented is own version and it sucks :D
now opera mini sits on the second page of my iphone...waiting for an update :p
 
wow I REALLY like this browser - much better than safari. And don't forget: this is the first version!
 
I'm on it right now. Very fast compared to Safari. So far I've noticed a couple of things I'd adjust. The zooming and panning need to be cleaned up slightly because they aren't quite right and the zoom is either too much or too little. It also seems like they haven't set the keyboard to use auto-correct and the keyboard doesn't have the .com button. Other than that it is a great fast browser but it does lack a the fluididty and detail/richness of mobile Safari.
 
Very nice! For a debut on the platform its very impressive. Was anyone really expecting it to be as smooth as Safari to begin with? Its certainly a lot faster!
 
Have to say I am disappointed. Doesn't seem that fast compared to safari (I'm on WiFi not 3g though) and the interface seems awkward and heavy compared to Safari.

Is it just me or is the zoom non-linear, getting faster the longer you pinch? Thats weird but may be good if I get used to it.
 
Barely useable.

Faster than Safari on a few pages, slower on most (maybe overloaded Opera-servers?) on a 3G connection. Pans fast, but refuses to zoom to the level I want. Refuses to zoom at all on certain pages.

Disappointed. But maybe future updates will improve things.
 
on some websites it loads the entire thing, if feels weird, i dont even know how to put it. and on other webpages it sort of crams everything together and you cant pinch to zoom.

the more i use it the more i like it but it still feels a little awkward
 
I'm excited that Opera have been able to get this approved, but I'll be sticking with Safari for now whilst they work on it further.
 
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