Email conversation
| From | Martin Stein |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Question about your microbrowsers comparisons |
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| Date | 10 April 2007 00:13 |
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The page you put together with screenshots from various mobile/microbrowsers
is wonderful. It's still the only useful outside resource cited at
[site name].
[URL]
Seeing as it's 2007, though, I'm a little puzzled how to interpret the
results. (The tests were back when Pocket PC 2003 was current.)
Do you have a sense of how things stack up today? Which are by now the
best-performing microbrowsers? At the time, the tests suggested
Opera Mini
Opera
Series 60
That [site name] page (if you didn't write it yourself) lists many of the
current microbrowser projects.
Many thanks!
Martin Stein
| From | Me |
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| To | Martin Stein |
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| Subject | Re: Question about your microbrowsers comparisons |
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| Date | 14 April 2007 10:53 |
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Martin,
> Do you have a sense of how things stack up today?
Not an awful lot has changed, to be honest (especially since the initial
tests were done in - I think - 2005, and updated since then). There is a new
one on the market that I have yet to test, called Deepfish. Other than that,
the performance of most browsers is about the same. Pocket IE and Opera have
both managed to get a bit faster, and Pocket IE has got marginally better at
handling media blocks.
The next version of Netfront (in beta) will also support CSS and scripting a
little better, but that does not affect the usability of most of those
pages.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/