Comments on: Mobile Ajax News: iPhone and Opera Mini

By: Vulpine Mobile

Vulpine Mobile — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:53:34 +0000

May have jumped the gun there. All the information I can find indicates Opera Mini 4 (Beta) does not support AJAX. Information does indicate that it supports XSLT and XPath though.

By: Vulpine Mobile

Vulpine Mobile — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:56:15 +0000

You might want to hold fire on saying Opera Mini 4.0 (Beta) doesn’t use AJAX.
I have been pulling my hair out trying to work out how mobile phones using NetFront 3.2 and etc have been using AJAX on my site. Phones made in 2004 without Symbian OS using AJAX???
It wasn’t until I noticed these devices were using Opera Mini 4.0.
How it translates the functionality of AJAX to your mobile is another question.

By: iPhoneLove

iPhoneLove — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:29:00 +0000

This is great, I bought it already and I’m happy with it. I tell u people buy it very good thing.

By: CHris

CHris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:03:33 +0000

It consistently crashes my Treo650. — This beta should have spent more time in alpha.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:55:56 +0000

From a web applications standpoint, I would prefer safari on iphone. From a web browsing standpoint, I’m more doubtful. Opera mini’s shrinking and reformatting of page contents is something you can only do with an intermediate server, and it really does work great. I have a suspicion that browsing on the iphone (over edge, not wifi) is going to be an exercise in patience.

By: Khaled Khalil

Khaled Khalil — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:58:52 +0000

opera mini can’t be compaired to iphone’s safari, though opera mobile can, and i see it is superior to iphone’s safari for many things.
opera mini isn’t exactly a browser, it retrieve data as second hand from operamini servers after shrinking pages so it can fit in any mobile memory, also it is much faster for the same reason.

By: Johan SundstrÃ¶m

Johan SundstrÃ¶m — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:38:30 +0000

Please elaborate “finger as a mouse used to”; it makes little sense to me, whether prefixed “one”, “two” or any other number.

By: test

test — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:38:47 +0000

this is a test

By: erich

erich — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:10:54 +0000

i’m sorry to disrupt your illusion that opera mini supports mobile ajax. it does not an has never, just opera mobile supports mobile ajax requests!

By: Justin Carter

Justin Carter — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:40:50 +0000

This is a very slick mobile browser (BETA, nonetheless!), and I’m impressed :)

@Ben Smith: Tables seem to be displaying perfectly fine for me, including table based layouts and normal tables used in content. Can you elaborate on the issues you have?

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:30:43 +0000

I love the idea of Opera Mini; I would love to put Heap (http://heaphq.com) on there as well as the iPhone (which it already works on). But it seems that Mini is not just a small version of the desktop browser, its quite limited. For instance it has trouble with tables of all things. So, I don’t really think this is something apple has to worry about. But gosh, I wish this was as the title suggest an equivalent product, that would open the world up to a lot more mobile users.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:18:25 +0000

what Apple meant to say about making phone calls directly from a web page is that Safari does it differently than the norm, which is “tel:1234567890″

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:49:46 +0000

Seems as though Apple has striken those details from the two linkbacks…I guess you can expect them to contact you as well :-)