Comments on: View your site with Nokia Open Source web browser today http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/240 my little chunk of bandwidth Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:52:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19814 By: erik http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/240#comment-444 erik Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:08:36 +0000 http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/240#comment-444 Yeah, two different approaches. Opera adapts the page to fit on a small screen. The Nokia browser squeezes where possible, but obeys coded widths and positioning, making it conform as best as possible to the intended page design. I like both approaches depending on the need. The Opera approach works really well for sites that have put some thought into page-flow for small screens. The Nokia approach works better for capturing the desktop experience with sites that don't render well when the browser chooses to layout the screen in a manner other then how the designer specified. And as site interactions become more rich (ex., touch screens and AJAX), the need to render as declared in the HTML becomes somewhat more critical for the customer experience. The lines begin to blur when you use larger screen though. On the Nokia 770, for example, even sites such as Google Mail work perfectly with Opera. Yeah, two different approaches. Opera adapts the page to fit on a small screen. The Nokia browser squeezes where possible, but obeys coded widths and positioning, making it conform as best as possible to the intended page design. I like both approaches depending on the need. The Opera approach works really well for sites that have put some thought into page-flow for small screens. The Nokia approach works better for capturing the desktop experience with sites that don’t render well when the browser chooses to layout the screen in a manner other then how the designer specified. And as site interactions become more rich (ex., touch screens and AJAX), the need to render as declared in the HTML becomes somewhat more critical for the customer experience.

The lines begin to blur when you use larger screen though. On the Nokia 770, for example, even sites such as Google Mail work perfectly with Opera.

]]> By: Artem http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/240#comment-389 Artem Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:15:14 +0000 http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/240#comment-389 Errgh, I hate the horizontal scrolling. Whatever good the rendering is, while there is Opera with its "small screen rendering" Nokia browser is out of competition... Well, it would be out of competition if there was a competition :) Errgh, I hate the horizontal scrolling. Whatever good the rendering is, while there is Opera with its “small screen rendering” Nokia browser is out of competition… Well, it would be out of competition if there was a competition :)

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