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Posted by Werner \"Menneisyys\" Ruotsala on October 20, 2007, 8:43 am
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Web Browsing News as of 10/18/2007: new Opera Mobile, Picsel, Spb Pocket
Plus etc.
A lot has happened on the Web browser scene in the last month. Let's go over
the news!
1. Opera Mobile 8.65 Final released!
Since this March, there have been two beta versions of Opera Mobile, without
doubt the BEST, fastest and most standards compliant Web browser for the
Windows Mobile platform. Now, almost half a year after the release of the
first Beta, the final version has, finally, been released, of which I was
also a (closed) betatester, working closely together with the developers and
decision makers of Opera.
Compared to the 8.65 betas, which I thoroughly elaborated on in the Web
Browsing Bible (and, therefore, in here, I don't elaborate on these new
features - make sure you read my roundup above), there are only few changes.
There, on the other hand, have been several bugfixes; for example, the
really annoying DEFBROWSER bug I've, independent of some other people doing
the same, discovered and reported HERE).
[More:]
Design decisions
1.. Single column layout removed. This is a design decision I don't really
agree with. Particularly if you have a VGA device, you MAY find the lack of
the single column mode annoying, particularly with sites / pages that,
otherwise, would work much better with a well-working One Column mode. An
example: a Wikipedia article in PIE's One Column mode on a VGA device in
Landscape mode (Largest charsize, High Resolution enabled) (the same with
Fit to screen - as can be seen, it's pretty much useless) and the same in
Opera Mobile (Minimum font size: 8; Zoom: 100%). As can clearly be seen, One
Column modes will ALWAYS be able to present more information. You can, of
course, use zoom facilities so that the horizontal screen estate is fully
filled in but, then, the character size will also grow and, what is worse,
the images will also become pixelizated. (Also see THIS thread for more info
/ discussion.)
2.. Desktop view, which has been made the default (!) viewing mode, has
been made much friendlier. Now, it's using a bit smaller characters than
before. Should you still find them too big, switch to the default (fit to
screen) viewing mode because setting Menu / Tools / Settings / Minimum font
size to even 8 doesn't seem to do the trick. Thanks to the, most of the
time, excellently working new wrapping functionality, makes it possible to
live without having to scroll around. This is shown in the following (VGA
Landscape) screenshot with the View menu shown:
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more at:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=2250&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.
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