Opera Mini Demo
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
As part of my cellphone programming class, I have been introduced to a few new tools for mobile design. So far the most important one is the Opera Mini Demo. Opera Mini is the most prevalent web browser on mobile devices, and this clever page displays web pages in a nice little cellphone after jamming it through Opera Mini’s rendering engine. Opera Mini takes an Apple like approach, discarding mobile only style sheets, and instead opting to fuse both mobile and screen CSS together with the grace of a walrus doing ballet with a running chainsaw on the flat end of a postage stamp. This is however a strong improvement over what the web used to be on a phone where the rendering was the chainsaw and the users sense of sight and good taste, the walrus. Whereas the current state of events can be done carefully, even gracefully if the web page is designed well, the past was just an exercise in how to make it hurt the least. (more…)
