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Doesn't support 480 resolution?
MMMH, not a pretty sight.
The basic version instead just locks the input area, thus becoming quite useless.
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Opera Mini 2.0
And from the two previous comments, it appears that it works on a T3 but not a TX? (I have a TX.)
Nice improvements
Now, Mini 2 "supports downloads" . . . but the way it does it is not what you'd think. When you click on a download link, it warns you that Opera Mini may be exited -- then it automagically launches the built in browser to handle the download. Mini doesn't actually handle the download, other than redirecting to another application and filling in the URL. Some would call that elegant, other would call it a kludge. Either way, it works -- but after the download, you have to relaunch Mini to continue the Opera experience.
The skins are a nice idea, pretty limited right now (mainly color changes). The scroll-transitions are eye candy. It seems to be a bit more stable overall so far, so that's good. There's also still some distortion to the higher resolution pictures -- on my TC, a small percentage of the bottom of a picture is skewed out of line. It's not a huge thing, but just kind of weird looking sometimes.
Personally, I think it still offers the best handheld browsing experience overall. Also, now I have Opera to blame for getting me into blogging as blog space comes with your free Opera account. Fun stuff!
C.
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RE: Nice improvements
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Nice improvements
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RE: Worthy Download vs. Treo 650 Browser?
RE: Worthy Download vs. Treo 650 Browser?
yup, that's the key, isn't it? The only other use I have for the 3-4MB of those hoggy Java files is Kmaps, but it's more novelty than anything I regularly use. Ferget about the silly Java games and such...
You can try manually moving the Java files out of RAM and then into RAM everytime you need to run a Java application, but it's a royal pain. Opera seems to be coming along o.k., but basically it's dead-in-the-water as a primary Palm browser because of the RAM footprint, kludgy navigation, and s-l-o-w bootup.
Opera is nice to have as a "backup" browser for those pages that Blazer can't display for NVFS errors, bad formatting, s-l-o-w rendering and all the other reasons Blazer sucks. But until Palm releases some Treo hardware capable of properly supporting an address book AND a few applications including Java and such, we're stuck with major compromises like this to get around their "cheaping out" on the Treo 6xx's RAM specifications.
Problems with it crashing?
RE: Problems with it crashing?
RE: Problems with it crashing?
I've also noticed that if I am in the process of loading a page and I hit my center button (center of the directional pad), Mini 2 will freeze and I have to reset to clear it up. It's a pain, but it's easily avoided.
Sometimes I wonder if the crashing has to do with the increased complexities of running an application in a Java environment that's running on the Palm OS platform. Just another layer where stuff can go wrong . . .
C.
does NOT support downloading files!
RE: does NOT support downloading files!
The unauthorized install of Picsel Browser is more what I'm looking for in a Palm webbrowser.
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