Jun 7, 11:38
Opera 9 for Mobile and the Intellegent zoom
Following the latest trend in the Mobile Web Browsers market Opera will release a full browser for Mobiles incorporating the intellegent zoom and overviews of pages along with Widgets and advanced client-side capabilities. Joining the Mobile Safari and DeepFish, taking the small screen web browsing experience to the next level matching desktop experiences.
Better hardware, so why not?
It’s a confusing debate if you think about it, having the main challenge which is punching keypads and scrolling pitches to navigate. Getting back to the fact that loading Desktop optimized websites are bandwidth hungry despite the fact that they could be built with standards and clean structural markup, there’s always rich media and imagery that no matter how optimized they get or cached they still make up a good figure in KB downloads, considering the newness of the whole 3G/GPRS service packages and pricing models they’re so not welcoming.
Yes, better hardware, better interfaces and experiences are positive but the limitations haven’t been taken off the way yet, is this going to make it tougher to think of Mobile Optimized websites?
Or as Steve Jobs mentioned in the latest D5 interview that the Mobile Web as the tiny screens and tiny pages mean poor experience and not even close to a proper experience?
If these browsers take of, and get adopted, then we’re likely to spend more on Data plans and less on paying for Mobile Optimized web projects, that is the death of the Mobile Markup and even the dotMobi model.
Yes, Experience is king, but economic accessibility is a must, not forgetting that size really matters and differentiates the whole experience, I’m still so not convinced that this is the way the Mobile Web should’ve been directed.
At the end of the day, it’s a new industry all over again, and believe it or not, Jobs was right when he said iPhone would revlutionize the mobility world, yes it applies to the Mobile Web too, thin about how DeepFish and Opera 9 are coming out soon the whole Mobile Web design and use will change.
Another stage, another transition, another form to adopt and get adjusted to, for us Designers and Developers.
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