Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

Thursday, July 1, 2004

Opera on Symbian is amazing. It’s perfectly rendering the CSS stunts that even IE on Windows cannot. This screenshot shows Opera in large screen mode, where it tries to emulate a regular desktop and allows both horizontal and vertical scrolling. There’s also a small screen mode in which it discards stylesheets, scales images down, and ensures the page fits in the limited space available. It’s not anywhere as comfortable as a regular desktop, but it’s better than anything I’ve seen on a handheld device so far.

Opera software may have finally found the niche audience that has eluded them on the desktop.

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  balaji — Jun 30, 2004 7:15:55 PM — # ↩

  how are these photos’ coming. the alt text says “Image from phone camera.” how?
  -b-
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    Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jun 30, 2004 7:34:23 PM — # ↩

    The alt text is from the script configuration file. It has nothing to do with the source of the pictures. I’m using a screenshot app on the phone to take these pictures, then posting them the regular way.
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  irq2 — Jul 1, 2004 4:59:50 AM — # ↩

  My 3650 doesn’t have enough memory to run Opera. Even when I install it on the MMC, the amount of RAM is insufficient. Keeps closing every once in a while :-(
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  slosh — Jul 1, 2004 6:25:55 AM — # ↩

  Yuck!
  How the heck can you compare Windows to Symbian OS and Opera to IE!?
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    Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jul 1, 2004 6:28:06 AM — # ↩

    Re: Yuck!
    It so happens that IE is the shittiest browser out there currently. Even Opera is better.