Posted by occupied
catch a rabbit
kid: dad, how do you catch a rabbit?
dad: hide behind trees, and make a sound like carrot!
browser is the device itself. browser is the first thing I have in mind if I try to connect to or from a device.
the way mobile browsers deliver contents. there are two ways: (1) conventional. contents is delivered as is. MSIE Mobile, Opera Mobile, NetFront, Nokia Web, jB5 are of this kind; (2) progressive, but in some cases, regressive. web pages retrieved either as compressed html, style, imagery, animation and scripting (ThunderHawk, Opera Mini, UCWEB), or images (SkyFire).
which one is better? it's a matter of personal choice. I myself prefer the former because I am a conservatrix: onwards, christian soldiers! we will sing you a song, a soldier's song, sang Zak McKracken.
the conventional browsers gave me full control to the code. most of my device is functioning as test bed, especially for html. I turn to the latter only when the passion for contents on the go is unbearable.
Opera Mobile 9.7. The news is a bit stale: Opera 9.7 is coming. what makes this new to me, at least when I read the news, is the message this version tries to deliver with that shemmat silly marketing slogan "Ajax support and Opera Turbo which boosts slower connection, bla bla bla": paint your ole ones -if need be, put wigs on- and sell 'em at the price of a Persian cat. if I'm not mistaken, Ajax is already supported since at least version 8.5, and nothing new with Opera Turbo because we've had the same server which compresses web thingy before delivered to users in the past, cmiiw.
bastardization of browsers. before this, we've seen siteweb dot no wage war on MSIE6 on Wired (still via WMPowerUser.com). a reply to the posting read: I can see them in their norway office thinking why the hell they only have 1 percent of the browser market.. ah blame microsoft they say, but lets face it opera.. your marketing stratagy is poor. microsoft bundle IE into windows because they want to give their users the best experience possible and compatability with their operating system.
Best experience and compatibilty, these what Microsoft wins over outsiders. the download-and-install process is time consuming and troublesome, most users will avoid the ritual if possible.
apparently, the holy browser war is not as fierce in mobile as in desktop world, and we already have the winner. sadly I must confess, MSIE Mobile is unbeatable along 200 nautical miles and beyond. Opera: anata wa yabure mashita, haik? this posting was even written using PocketHTML which makes use of the in-built MSIE rendering engine, fyi.
gouging business practice. long live tricky, gouging business practice! without such a way, we wouldn't make big moolah.
many mobile op's even refurbish failed -in term of marketing- OEM, mostly HTC's, handsets and sell them as new ones, sometimes even under new brand. given all that, they often lambasted me for I'm still using the flattened taskbar.
even a simple OS5.1 ROM update raises the price. Learning from Toshiba, (official) ROM upgrade is totally free, even for lo-end devices. This is pathetic because most likely your PDA is an HTC no matter you have an HP, O2, or Google Android, or localized brands such as Dopod which is likely eating out 9mb solely for Mingliu chars (mui), grandad Sun Yat sen, Papa Mao and Uncle Deng all up there must be proud of this Dopod for the outstanding effort - with, of course, bundled MSIE in it, and gulliver carriers like Sprint, VZW, Telus, you name it.
browser guerrilla warfare. the only thing browser makers can, and have been doing so far, is embedding the browser to OEM's.
we can write off HTC and some of its derivatives because it's too Redmond-centric, as does Nokia because it has its own browser, whereas Samsung (Windows Mobile), Sharp (linux) and Motorola (Windows Mobile and linux) are good. to diversify and widen the possibirity, mobile op's are good targets, too.
by doing such intensification, extensification, revitalization, but not bastardization and defamation, for teh nation (of Opera), we may eventually reduce MSIE's domination in pda world to the current desktop browser's market share within 5 years. I said pda, not stupid smartphones.
browsers should be free - free, as in free sex. I haven't quitted becoming an Opera bigot, though silver and gold stood between me and the mobile version of the buhrowser, or am about to run Fennec and IrisBrowser if the lack of adequacy on my side continually haunting this relationship.
ok, this all there is in it.
Posted by aquared29
interisting
Posted by occupied
aquared29: thanks.
i guess today's (modern) browsers have evolved to the point described in skit below.
trying to impress her husband, a wife spends hours and a big bunch of bucks at a hairdresser. she's asking her husband's opinion:
wife: who do you think I look like? britney spears? haris pilton? heri tatcher (or is it teri hatcher who played susan in desperate horse wives)?
husband: you remind me of, er, my wife!
yupe, that's right. our modern browsers are stuck with façade.
like I said above, on constrained devices like mobile phones, it's *useful* to not stick to standards. or to be precisely, try to preserve web pages as close as intended by their designer. just mind the contents, Mendoza...
at least that what I understand from CSS Mobile Profile 2.
so I can (or try to) understand why MSIE Mobile is lacking in css support, eg. though spoofing as desktop versions (MSIE WM5: MSIE 6.8; MSIE WM6: MSIE 7.6, etc; which might've duped some fule eyes), they're relatively the same when it comes to, for instance, position - no use to support such a property in a little tiny teeny screen, is it?
on nokia, text is made to fit the viewport's width so the page is somewhat taller, regardless box's width.
I guess upgrade is no solution for that, and I guess those who urged me to upgrade had lost their mind. why the hex should my consuming behavior be dictated by browser makers, rom chefs, or guys in red, green, blue, cyan? juust kidding.
here are my wish lists (the smaller the number, the more important it to me):
[1] tor, or at least better proxy support
[2] css/script compressor
[3] better dowload manager
[4] popup/ads blocker; preferably partially
[5] better update method; if you're only dropping support for jquery or changing ua string, better not to have users to download the whole damn things
[6] the ability to save page and images in it
[ This Message was edited by: occupied on 2009-08-15 02:40 ]