SKITSANOS FOR RIA

Skitsanos

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Opera Brings iPhone Experience to Windows Mobile

By Adam DuVander, Monkey Bites

Four months after announcing their new mobile web browser, Opera has finally released a beta version for Windows Mobile. Symbian support is expected in the future. In February Opera announced they also intended to support Linux-based devices.

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta screenshot

The most noticeable change in this new version is an iPhone-like pan and zoom interface. Rather than starting with only the viewable portion of the web page, the browser shows the entire page, so the user can choose the content to view. This feature, which should finally bring enjoyable browsing to Windows Mobile, could be the reason the mobile beta is only available for phones with touchscreens.

Read full article...

0 comments:

Webware development dedicated blog by Skitsanos R&D Labs. ASP.NET, XML, RIA, Adobe Flex, ActionScript 3, AIR, AJAX, Web 2.0, Backbase, CGI development with RealBasic and other web development issues.
News
Downloads