Symbian in Motion - Latest Comments in The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

Teeth Cleaning — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:58:01 -0000

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

sajdasj — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:46:41 -0000

Greatt

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

ajsdhakj — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:43:25 -0000

great

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

akjshdajkdhk — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:38:35 -0000

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...

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

mukhamo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:19:10 -0000

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

Krea — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:56:24 -0000

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

zacharye — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:05:11 -0000

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...

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

smashpOp — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:07 -0000

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..

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

zacharye — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:32:46 -0000

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...

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

zacharye — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:41 -0000

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.

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:16:12 -0000

Doh! I meant the disabling of CSS!

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:15:26 -0000

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?

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

eldon barrows — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:38 -0000

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.

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

Joel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:40:16 -0000

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

E71 user — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:22 -0000

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.

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

NPS — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:23:59 -0000

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

zacharye — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00:01 -0000

:)

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

thenokiablog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:50:19 -0000

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

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

thenokiablog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:46:53 -0000

to be fair, streetread does not have valid markup.

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

zacharye — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:23:22 -0000

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.

Re: The S60 Browser Just Doesn’t Cut it Anymore

N95 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:35 -0000

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).