Mobile Ajax News: iPhone and Opera Mini

Written by on June 20th, 2007 in Ajax News.

In Mobile Ajax new, more details on the iPhone were made available, and Opera released a beta of its Opera Mini 4 browser.

Opera Mini 4

Opera has given us 10 reasons to love Opera Mini 4 which includes:

  • Surf the Web in style
  • “X marks the spot” — start at the right place
  • Stay at the right place
  • A virtual mouse
  • Power scrolling
  • Fast and cheap browsing
  • Good old Small Screen Rendering
  • Quick access to key functionality with the context menu
  • Web designers go wild

They have tried to be funny with an obligatory iPhone movie.

iPhone Browser Capabilities and Guidelines

Speaking of th iPhone, information on the browser capabilities has been released and includes restrictions:

  • 10MB max html size for web page
  • Javascript limited to 5 seconds run time
  • Javascript allocations limited to 10MB
  • 8 documents maximum loaded on the iPhone due to page view limitations
  • Quicktime used for audio and video
  • No Java
  • No Flash

and in features:

  • the page view feature lets you look at multiple websites and documents by scrolling thru them one after another
  • Full PDF support
  • double tap for zoom in
  • one finger as a mouse used to
  • two fingers as a mouse used to
  • new telephone links allows you to integrate phone calls directly from your webpage. remember this is only on safari.
  • built in google maps client for integrated mapping from your website

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/126445899/mobile-ajax-news-iphone-and-opera-mini

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