That's got NOTHING TO DO with the menu gone. clutchfans.com still redirects to ".net." You know what? It's because the website uses FLASH.
It is now official, wherever Safari is available for web browsing, it is now superseded by another web browser. I swear, Opera Mini is everything apple should have been working on, real tabbed browsing, low resource use, and it remembers preferences better. The best part is, Opera Mini unlike safari does not keep running it the background when its not being used. Safari runs as long as the iPhone runs, constantly chewing up ram. The Opera team really did a number here.
Posting from Opera Mini now. How do you zoom out? I already miss the multitouch and pinch. It's much faster though.
The zoom is something that I don't think they will fix. It all has to do with the way Opera sends the website to their servers and resizes the pics and texts so it loads faster. It's like that in all the phones. I'm sure we'll all get used to it.
You do know the difference in resizing text is a tiny change, basically just changing the font size echo '<font size="24">'; To something like, which changes the data consumption very ittle echo '<font size="10">'; Just thought I'd point that out
Facepalm...that didn't turn out well, I forgot you could embed things in your post can a mod correct that?
I'm posting from it right now and i love it. Much faster and slightly more intuitive. However, smaller links seem harder to click on. That is my only real gripe so far.
Also, radio buttons are a bit difficult for those with thick fingers. Really fast, but the zoom is bugging me.
It's a fairly good browser for being the first version available to the public. I'm sure they'll work out the kinks (i.e. that zoom). But I remember when I had my BlackBerry, I preferred the Bolt browser over the Opera by a wide margin because of zoom issues as well.
Make sure you switch to 3G for browsing. (I keep my phone on EDGE when not page-loading. Saves a TON of battery life...)
That's a browser plug in function that uses FLASH. I really do not understand how they can have a "YouTube" app, but no YouTube support on an iPhone. I believe any YouTube URL link takes you to the YouTube app on an iPhone.
Google/Youtube worked together with apple on the original iPhone such that youtube could kick out most videos in either flash or h.264. Since the iPhone supports h.264 that's what you're watching. More than anything, it shows the commitment google used to have to apple. Now, their name has been scrubbed off Safari in iPhone OS 4.0
