… takes reading the SDMB to a new level. Tabbed browsing makes it so much easier to read multiple threads on the device.
The browser looks beautiful. My favorite desktop browser is now also my favorite iPhone browser. Yay Opera. Get it on iTunes now.
Yay!!!
Somehow I thought Apple had barred other browsers.
ETA: Installed it, but it won’t run. Just hangs when I try to launch it - red Opera bar at the top, white screen, with the rotating cursor at top-left. Is it downloading itself or something?
I grabbed it as soon as I heard it was approved – I’m still expecting Apple to change their mind and pull it, so I wanted to make sure I had it!
I haven’t played with it too much, but it seems good so far. I do like the tabs feature very much. The interface is more attractive than Safari, and it definitely feels quicker. The zooming is a little quirky… pinching, whether a regular pinch or a reverse pinch, just toggles between zoom in and zoom out. I’m not sure if that’s a feature or a bug, but it’s different than the standard use of the pinch, so it’ll take some getting used to.
It is very nice to have an alternative to Safari, though!
Yeah, the zooming and scrolling, while much faster than Safari, aren’t as refined. Reading the SDMB I get a side-scroll. I’m sure they’ll work on it in future versions. I think one of the reasons pinching doesn’t work like in Safari is because Apple has a patent on it, and it has already rejected another photo app that tried to use pinching in the same way.
Uninstall, reboot, re-install. See if that helps.
Thanks, that worked. The zooming issue is a bit of a dealbreaker for me, unfortunately.
If Opera made the browser too good, then I guess it would have been rejected on a technicality.
Step 1: Get accepted into the App Store.
Step 2: Improve the product until it is better than Safari.
Does the Opera Mini browser have Home/End shortcuts? That’s the one thing I miss in Safari (unless it exists and I just haven’t figured out how)…it’s a real drag to have to scrollscrollscroll through long pages, like SDMB threads and blog entries with tons of comments.
Touching the top bar (with the time and battery indicator) takes you to the top of the page, I’m not sure if there is an End equivalent.
No built in scroll to end, but you can get to do that by using bookmarklets
That looks like it might be useful, if only I weren’t too stupid to figure out how to install it.
I’m not an experienced ipod touch/iphone web browsing user.
I’ve read a lot of ppl complain about the zooming.
I find Opera zooming to be better for most sites since it changes the layout of the text.
So in 1 zoom, I get the meat of the text formatted nicely for me.
On Safari, it is just the same webpage zoomed in and I’ll have to scroll around to read it.
The other complaint is that Safari’s version of websites can be read zoomed out. I cannot find a site where that applies differently from Opera.
I tried Straightdope home page and both safari and opera are not clear enough to read without zooming.
Overall I like Opera mini’s functionality and the data compression is what will make me get the 4th gen iphone instead of an android phone.
There are install instructions on the page of whichever bookmarklet you choose. Here’s the direct link to the scroll to end one - [.scrollHeight%29;"]link.](http://ipuhelin.com/en/safariplus/__e__#javascript:scroll(0,document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0) Just visit on your iPhone/Touch and follow the instructions. When you’ve done, you’ll be able to scroll to the end of a page with just two taps (one to open your bookmarks, the second tapping on Scroll to end). Note, mind, that it only works in Mobile Safari.
You can get Opera Mini for Android. Hopefully, a version of Opera Mobile will also come out on that platform.
Well, sort of. You can’t have a code interpreter except for the ones built into the iPhone (WebKit), and all modern browers have Javascript interpreters.
Opera Mini gets around this by not doing any interpreting on the phone. The webpage is actually rendered, interpreted, and cached by Opera’s servers and a compressed image is sent to the phone. Supposedly it’s faster than doing the rendering on the phone. The downside is that I imagine not everything’s going to work quite right.
I see a little silhouetto of an App…