DISQUS

N95 · 1 year ago

true... not to mention the missing "open in new tab" feature. but still, how is, for example, the iphone handling the mentioned sample site? as the iphone by many is perceived as "the reference" with regard to phone based browsers.. (except for flash, of course).

Zach · 1 year ago

It's funny you ask that. I intentionally avoided mentioning the iPhone in this post because I don't want to measure Nokia against another company - I want to measure Nokia against itself. Multimedia Computers sold by an Internet Company should be able to browse sites built on technology that has been popular for years already...

Also keep in mind, this site is just an example. Streetread was a last straw / boiling point of sorts.

With that said, I'll answer your question now lol. Yes, the iPhone renders the site fine and yes, the functionality of the site works perfectly in Safari mobile.

Mark Guim · 1 year ago

yep.. unfortunately I can't name any nokia device that beats web browsing on the iPhone.

NPS · 1 year ago

Funny that Nokia's website doesn't even work properly on the e61i S60 browser... So much for a proper browser

Mark Guim · 1 year ago

to be fair, streetread does not have valid markup.

Zach · 1 year ago

:)

I edited the post a few moments ago to clarify that this particular site is just one of a hundred sites I've had fail on the S60 Browser. The last straw, if you will. I could run through a list of plenty of sites that use fairly old and popular technologies and still aren't supported by Nokia's browser. I'm sure you could as well...

As for the valid markup issue, fair enough. It works fine in "other" mobile browsers though! ;) http://bit.ly/244yUv

E71 user · 1 year ago

One point about page compatibility to browsers. For example the street read page is designed wrongly. If you diminish the desktop browser window to same size that is on mobile display you notice same effect than in phone display.

Zach · 1 year ago

But the functionality of the site still works fine. On the S60 browser if I click a link, it crashes...

Neither here nor there however. Please recheck the post for an update as this particular site is just an example; one of a hundreds sites I've tried that "should" work but doesn't.

Joel · 1 year ago

Well, my Nokia N95-3 displays streetread fine at 100% zoom-- I think by default S60 browser is set at 125%?

eldon barrows · 1 year ago

finally someone who hates the s60 browser as much as me!!! I never use it anymore since opera mini came out. Looking forward to Opera mobile 9.5 for symbian n skyfire really looks promising too even though its in beta. Symbian really have to step up their game if they want to compete with them.

Andy Mabbett · 1 year ago

While I'd ask how much of this is the fault of the sites' authors; a simple fix would be for the browser to allow the disabling of javascript.

Anyone know how to make Opera the defult browser on a Nokia N95?

Andy Mabbett · 1 year ago

Doh! I meant the disabling of CSS!

Zach · 1 year ago

A point I brought up with someone else when discussing this matter - why should an author have to accommodate inferior browsers? I can understand if the S60 Browser falters while trying to load a site build with brand new cutting edge technology, but relatively simple stuff that's 5+ years old? It should work...

Krea · 1 year ago

Well, its also other way around. My opinion is that people should have a "license" to create public web pages, no-one cares to validate their code anymore, not even for commercial web sites. As a author myself I validate all my code and test them with Konqueror, IE, Firefox and Opera desktop browser, never had a problem rendering those pages in nokia browser after that. All internet browsers should act as xml-parsers IMHO, if the code isn't valid it should just show an error page, that way 90% of web wouldn't be poorly working copy&paste-M$-Frontpage web sites anymore and I don't think we'd lose that much on those

smashpOp · 1 year ago

gald someone pointed this out... i am sometimes suffer from this as well. Id use opera but it doesnt give me the "built in" browser feel..

Zach · 1 year ago

I'm not a fan of Opera either. I will admit though, I'm looking
forward to playing with 9.5 when the beta comes to S60...

Resumes · 1 month ago

Pretty much improvement right? well they have to do such upgrade to maintain their position on the competition

compare credit card processing · 1 month ago

The last straw, if you will. I could run through a list of plenty of sites that use fairly old and popular technologies and still aren't supported by Nokia's browser. I'm sure you could as well...

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Teeth Cleaning · 4 days ago

Yes S60 browser dosn't work with new technologies very well.