Written by Thomas on Monday, May 19, 2008

ZDnet on Opera Mobile 9.5: better than iPhone’s Safari?!


Learned about this through Gizmodo. Apparently Matt Miller from ZDnet has had a little time to test the newest Opera browser for WM on the HTC Advantage and has been having a great time with it! This is fantastic to hear, as WM has really needed a great native web browser (aside from proxy solutions). He’s got his own review up on YouTube so I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to delight yourself with the details. 

imageThe one thing I am interested in that I don’t believe was answered in the video was: does text reflow when you zoom in? This is a very big deal to me because zooming in is cool, but zooming in and having to scroll horizontally to read a paragraph just sucks. That and the whole RAM issue…I think devices out with only 64 MB of RAM are going to get shafted if they are running anything aside from Opera Mobile.

Oh well, let’s look on the positive side. A ton of the new devices out there are having at least 128 MB of RAM and now they have a non craptacular browser to fill all that RAM up. I’ll toast to that!

 

Video — here

ZDnet review text — here

 

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Menneisyys
May 21, 2008

“The one thing I am interested in that I don’t believe was answered in the video was: does text reflow when you zoom in? This is a very big deal to me because zooming in is cool, but zooming in and having to scroll horizontally to read a paragraph just sucks. ”

It does, just like Opera Mini in non-One Column mode. See for example my W3C presentation, where I’ve thoroughly elaborated on all these matters.


Ragart
May 21, 2008

That’s excellent news, Menneisyys! If the text reflow really is good, than I’ll definitely admit to being jealous of that. I do wish sometimes that the iPhone’s browser would reflow text — especially when I’m looking at a massive .txt file or something like that.


Menneisyys
May 22, 2008

Hopefully, Sun indeed releases a JVM for the iPhone before long as promised (see my related article if interested). Then, running Opera Mini on the iPhone also becomes a reality, taking away this problem too.


Peter
May 23, 2008

Werner, have you tried the extracted Opera 9.5 going round at XDA?

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