Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and four sons. He's the founder of 
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Opera Mini vs. Mobile Safari, a Flickr Photoset →
Screenshots I took this morning comparing Opera Mini for iPhone and Safari on iPhone, using Opera.com, NYTimes.com, Apple.com, and CameronMoll.com.
First impressions after a few minutes of testing: Opera Mini is definitely snappy on iPhone. NYTimes.com loads quite fast compared to Safari. However, most text on non-mobilized sites is illegible without tapping to zoom in. This almost negates any speed gains vs. Safari, as you have to zoom in to figure out whether or not it’s something you’re interested in reading/clicking. Related, zooming “snaps” to elements and their boundaries, i.e. there’s no granular zooming. This can be pretty frustrating if you’re used to zooming with Safari.
Opera Mini also missed an opportunity to implement something I think Safari should have implemented long ago: Hold down the ‘back’ arrow to show a history of previous pages, much like you do with any desktop browser. This is one feature that could significantly improve the speed of mobile browsing. (Yes, you can access this through ‘History’, but I for one never remember to do this.)
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Hm. Those visual differences are
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