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Opera Mini For iPhone Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the at-least-the-price-is-right dept.

Stoobalou writes "Everyone was mightily surprised when Apple allowed Opera entry to the iTunes App store, but there's one very good reason for the change of heart. Opera Mini for iPhone is not very good." I tried it for a little while, and the one thing that I really liked is how insanely fast switching tabs was.

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  1. Re:Not very good? by Tim+C · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apple's stated justification for not allowing Flash is that it'll drain the battery and so give a poor user experience.

    Common belief is that it is really because it will allow third parties to develop apps in Flash and deploy them on the web (potentially even downloading them to the iPhone), thus bypassing the App Store and Apple's cut of the money.

    *Stoobalou's* stated justification for Apple allowing Opera Mini on the iPhone is that it's not very good; Apple has said no such thing.

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  2. DO NOT USE FOR HTTPS!! by pak9rabid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since Opera's proxy servers do the actual rendering of the page, anything that's accessed via https has to be decrypted by Opera's servers, then re-encrypted and sent back to the user (ala man-in-the-middle).

  3. Re:Not very good? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Informative

    HTML5 video does not allow for DRM

    Yes it does. HTML5 does not specify anything about the format of the video - it can be in any container format and CODEC that the client supports. Safari delegates playback to QuickTime, so you can use HTML5 to deliver DRM'd video in any format that QuickTime supports.

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