Opera Mini Approved for Inclusion in App Store

[koruki]

This is going to the fastest soar to top 25 app ever lol. Already downloading

Installed, loads pages very fast.

First thing I notice, I built a page that had javascript which changes the appearance of the page, when the script is actioned, Opera requires a re-render on their server which causes another page load. Something we dont normally see on normal browsers!

This all points to AJAX handling methods so I see Opera being a slow way to viewing ajax heavy pages

 

[Rocketman]

By itself perhaps, but when people type "it's fail" or "that's fail" or "epic fail", it's just a moronic butchering of the language. At least LOL is an acronym.

The people uttering it do not realize it.

 

[Yamcha]

Thank God

 

[*LTD*]

Some people are saying it's pretty horrible and makes mobile Safari look even better. Is this even worth trying?

 

[BTW]

No doubt there's no Flash, Java, or Silverlight support built within this browser lest Apple would not have approved it.

 

[Jamo12]

Some people are saying it's pretty horrible and makes mobile Safari look even better. Is this even worth trying?

I feel if it is free software that you know is safe, it is always a good thing to try, even if you and everyone else thinks it will suck.

 

[rwilliams]

Some people are saying it's pretty horrible and makes mobile Safari look even better. Is this even worth trying?

I know that I'm giving you more Apple ammunition here (*shudder*)....but Safari beats this by a good amount. Later versions should improve, but right now, some features are rather rough. All in all, it's a good starting point, and some sites definitely look better on Opera than they do on Safari, but Opera's got some work to do to equal mobile Safari.

 

[firefuze]

Fast!

Amazing fast! 19sec to load macrumors.com on Safari over 3G network (in full, until blue bar is finished loading along the top) and only 7sec in full using Opera Mini browser! (again untill blue bar had finished) Very impressed.

 

[trekkie604]

Some people are saying it's pretty horrible and makes mobile Safari look even better. Is this even worth trying?

You won't like it.

Viewing Engadget as an example, it messes up the formatting of the articles. Plus the zooming isn't smooth as steve's butter.

 

[rachkath]

It's not on the iPhone version of the app store as of 7:24 PDT - iphone time. I never check the computer version unless there is an upgrade. Would there be a difference in timing?

 

[budman1961]

Opera approved for iPod!

Can an iPad (universal or otherwise) app be far behind?? Here is the link - http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/12/opera-mini-for-iphone-approved/

 

[deenybird]

"request could not be completed" here as well....

 

[wbham]

"unable to purchase"! this sucks i got so excited when i was it lol

 

[mdriftmeyer]

What did you folks expect?

It's written in Cocoa.

They hired a team of Objective-C developers to write it.

Bravo to Opera for seeing this as an opportunity to drive business to their corporation.

 

[TheLegendary122]

Opera Mini is up in the Australian App Store

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Apple probably let it go just because the vast majority of users won't change from their default browser... sound familiar?

They adhere to the Cocoa spec. They have the team writing the Opera 10.50.x browser in Cocoa for Mac OS X.

They are heavy drivers of HTML5.

Kudos to Opera.

 

[wbham]

OK well it did install and it does seem a bit quicker I guess. Everything looks alot smaller without zooming in.

 

[ppnkg]

it's *very* fast!

 

[Hands Sandon]

Some people are saying it's pretty horrible and makes mobile Safari look even better. Is this even worth trying?

It's worth downloading if you've got limited time and your outside of 3G coverage with several sites you want to quickly check. It's so jerky though, with no double tap to size things properly (at least not as effectively as Safari), no pinch to zoom and odd and ugly page layouts sometimes, that you'll definitely appreciate Safari a lot more. I use Full Browser instead of Safari for reading longer articles as it's near full screen and likewise, I think I'll use Opera mini at times. As it is though, only when I'm in a real hurry.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

How does this work, really?

Opera has never made it clear how this app really works.

I'm guessing that it is just the same as iCab Mobile, in that it uses the WebKit-based engine built in to the iPhone to actually display the content on the screen; but uses a third-party server-side renderer to render it. (iCab Mobile uses Google's "Mobilizer".)

So while the actual rendering may be performed using Opera's engine, it is likely done on Opera's servers, then compressed and sent to your iPhone for display on the built-in WebKit engine.

 

[downhillski1]

In Store!

It is already in the UK store! Yet to show up in the US store though...

 

[ImperialX]

This is as fast as they say. I'm very impressed.

 

[SchneiderMan]

What? It's for the iPhone

 

[wbham]

So far I've found:
Its annoying not being able to push the bar at the top with the time/battery/reception to get to the top of a web page.

The unzoomed in pages look bizarre.

You're either stuck at a big zoom in or no zoom, no in between.

No dictionary on the google search bar.

The search bar and address bar feel a bit cramped.

If you accidentally click a webpage there no easy way to stop it from loading unlike safari's small "x" on the address bar

 

[Simgar988]

its not in the the appstore for me. I searched "opera mini" and got mini browser pro and sphere web browser