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Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the game-is-afoot dept.

andylim writes "Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini, has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera Mini will be available in less than 24 hours, market by market, as a free download. Here's the download URL for when it goes live."

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  1. Re:wtf by Knutsi · · Score: 5, Informative

    how did opera get this through the app store approval process!?

    Because, as far as I understand, it is not really a browser, but rather a viewer for a remotely processed webpage: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/opera-mini-on-iphone-is-fast-but-why/

    It allowed my old Sony Ericsson phone (can't remember which model, but it was not a smartphone) to have a Safari like zoomable web-browser of quite hight quality (:

  2. Re:wtf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    how many posts from misinformed people, all considering themselves the Holders of the Truth. (and modded interesting, no less)

    all other apps using browsers are using the webkit rendered to display pages, which is an iphone component, and while apple doesn't force you to use webkit it does forbid you to use any kind of generic interpreters, including the javascript interpreter required for browser to actually work

    opera is the _first_ alternative browser to get published, and it does so not interpreting javascript on the iphone but serving already interpreted web pages (javascript stuff is run on the opera own backend and pages served after collecting the result)

    so before posting your smartass "loads of other browser" opinion, please do some research. there are ton of other gullible people that find you "interesting", and now are as misinformed as you, thanks of the slashdot moderation.

  3. Re:Posting from it now.... by Macthorpe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because:

    1) The main Opera browser doesn't operate the same way
    2) You're already trusting everyone except Opera on your list when you browse HTTP anyway, and
    3) Opera warns you that HTTPS transmissions may be insecure the first time you attempt it.

    --
    "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
  4. Re:Thank you... by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed - I just love that "Apple approves an application, when we thought they might not" is front page news. People are that thankful.