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Opera Mini Approved for Inclusion in App Store
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you know that alot of the inovations that you use in browsers today, such as tabs, come from Opera right?
btw, the UI is absolutely horrid. Very fast, but that is the only good thing about it. No momentum scrolling, no tap statusbar to scroll to top. It feels like a windows mo app more than an iPhone app.
i doubt it. the opera mini browser is not rendering the pages right on the phone. the web sites are actually interactive pictures, streamed to the device. there is no code executed on the device itself, other than the UI.
I think it's more than that. I think for one, Apple wanted to divert the "hate" that's been going on lately especially with this SDK/ADOBE thing. Secondly, I think Apple wants to try and continue to hold the mobile browsing lead (ahead of Android) so putting Opera out there will probably spike up browsing traffic for iPhones (thats just a guess).
Bit of a cross-post from my comment on the iPad forum but my initial impressions:
Hellishly fast!
Unfortunately it's got a few things to sort out before I'll be happy with it, on the iPhone at least:
* The default zoom/resolution on an iPhone is too large, so you can't read the text
* It seems to switch randomly between defaulting to 1:1 style zoom level and the entire page
* There's no proper zooming, there's a pinch gesture but it just switches between 1:1 and full
* Auto-correct doesn't work (it's surprising how much I used it)
I've always quite liked the Opera browser on the desktop and I think it shows a lot of promise but it's got some fixing to be done before I'll be using the iPhone version long term. It'll be interesting to see people's findings on the iPad one.
Definitely looking forward to 1.1, like I say it's blazingly fast and I'm sure once they've worked the kinks out it'll be awesome.
Hellishly fast!
Unfortunately it's got a few things to sort out before I'll be happy with it, on the iPhone at least:
* The default zoom/resolution on an iPhone is too large, so you can't read the text
* It seems to switch randomly between defaulting to 1:1 style zoom level and the entire page
* There's no proper zooming, there's a pinch gesture but it just switches between 1:1 and full
* Auto-correct doesn't work (it's surprising how much I used it)
I've always quite liked the Opera browser on the desktop and I think it shows a lot of promise but it's got some fixing to be done before I'll be using the iPhone version long term. It'll be interesting to see people's findings on the iPad one.
Definitely looking forward to 1.1, like I say it's blazingly fast and I'm sure once they've worked the kinks out it'll be awesome.
No they arn't, now they will just move down the list and bitch about something else. Like it took to long or something, oh well let them keep drinking the haterade.
very true, most people don't even know that opera exists and they don't have need for another browser. This is the reason people still use IE, it comes default.
