Symbian in Motion - Latest Comments in S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

Krea — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:14:21 -0000

nowpublic.com seems to open a huge popup in middle of the screen when first time opened. This popup is bigger than the phones display resolution, so it just doesn't fit the screen. There are always these kind of use cases when using small screen rendering, not all the web sites were tested that they work on small windows also. There is always going to be limitations on mobile browsing when compared to PC experience, for example this small srceen rendering, and also the fact the mouse cannot be fully emulated with 5-way navigation joystick, not to talk about emulating mouse usage on touch screen devices (how would you emulate e.g. onmouseup or onmouseover events with touch)

Its a fact that S60 uses a bit outdated version of safari engine, but iPhone uses cutting edge version of it as far as I know and still theres more and more iPhone optimized versions of web sites coming out. Something to think about... It's not just about the web engine, mobile devices have _real_ limitations that cannot be solved without using external monitor and mouse attached to the phone, and then it's not a phone anymore, it's a PC

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

kozjegyzo — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:52:20 -0000

It's great Zach that you are addressing this issue! Nokia dev guys should read this blog. Hats off to s60 to take the leap, but it seems like the browser has been left to rot. This is a shame! Nokia should allocate resources to this rather than making a new chat application that nobody will use (because there are soooo many other better ones to choose from), or waste money on making a music store that is also already exists. All these side ventures are in the wrong direction.
Many greater minds than mine predicted that all IT will be done on the Internet not to far in the future. I have to agree fully. Just from personal experience - the company I work for uses Google for everything from company mail to online document editing cooperation, communication via chat, the list is never ending. Really from the applications on my laptop I use Firefox for most of what I need to do.
So keeping that in mind I would assume the browser on a mobile device would be number 1 priority in this day and age. I assume people at Nokia are not stupid and see this trend going towards everything being online. So why don't they do something about it???
Firefox is coming out in mobile for soon (the sooner the better) and that hopefully will solve some of the problems, I'm really waiting for it, becouse right now surfing the web on my E51 is such a put-off that I only do it when I really must.
Zach you mentioned Android... well all I have to say is line up with your plates because Android is gonna dish out some ass whoopin, that the mobile market has never seen before ;)

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

ANDYN95 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:25:29 -0000

just tryed nowpublic on my n95 8gb euro and the same happened. iv had alot of problems with the browser its time for an upgrade but thats not going to happen any time soon and nokias ment to be an internet company aswell yeah right.

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

Zach — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:36:10 -0000

Very odd indeed Jason - perhaps there have been some "improvements"
made to the S60 Browser since the latest E61i firmware release. ;)

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

Jason Chu — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:30:39 -0000

What's strange is that I tried nowpublic.com on my E61i and I could see both sets of columns and scroll through them no problem...

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

Zach — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:48:08 -0000

Better compatibility, no question. I don't need to watch videos of
cats falling asleep, I need to browse the web.

;)

Re: S60 Browser Issues, Part 2

smashpOp — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:07:49 -0000

ok one question.
do you prefer flash support? .. or better compatibality with web 2.0? :D