MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 06/07/2011 19:03, Rufus told the world:
No. You just don't understand what I'm getting at. I'm not saying
"bring Mozilla to iOS". I'm saying it's not "impossible" to duplicate
the SM experience using WebKit.
For a given, very particular, very limited definition of "SM experience..."
A Webkit SM won't run extensions available for Gecko SM
A Webkit SM won't render pages the same as Gecko SM
Yes, and I've begun to notice web page designers having two (or more?)
versions of their pages - Google is an example. If you surf Google with
iOS Safari you will get a page optimized for the iPad and a link to
display the desktop version Google page - which iOS Safari will display,
but poorly. (if web designers can do this, I can't explain why they all
still can't browser sniff correctly...)
I expect I'll notice more of this as I use my iPad more - I've only had
it about a month or so, and have yet to travel with it or actually
depend on it for any length of time as a faux "netbook".
Those two, taken together, mean that the user experience *will not* be
the same. Ergo, the experience cannot be duplicated.
q.e.d.
Not really. Think in terms of features first and foremost - "accuracy"
of translation. Features - within limitations, as I've
said/accepted...maybe I should be saying "replicate" vice "duplicate"?
The point would be to offer some/most of the functional things SM can do
that Safari doesn't - let's start with tabs, for example.
Tabs are *the* reason I use Atomic over Safari on my iPad. And other
simple things - like being able to designate and store a Home page and
have a Home button - iOS Safari doesn't do that, but Atomic does.
A second (and my most) desirable SM port would be an integrated usenet
reader/mail app - presently there is only one that I can find: NewsTap.
While it's a great app and I'm very happy with it, it's still not like
using an integrated suite - which is another of *the* big features I
like/prefer about the Netscape/Mozilla Suite/SM collection historically.
Thirdly and most important would be the SM graphical interface - looks.
I find Atomic to be very "SM-like" (it even supports limited "theme"
color choice - and has tabs), which is which is why I like it. Does it
function exactly like SM? No...but I can understand and live with that.
My experience of Atomic is similar to my experience of desktop SM.
Sure - present add ons, etc. wouldn't be supported - functions of more
popular ones like spoofing could be built in as it is win both iOS
Safari and Atomic. Support add-ons in the future? Wide open...
But I could/would still have something I'd be familiar with - and it's
that familiarity that's the crux of what I'm trying to get at. iOS
Safari doesn't behave much like OS X Safari, and iOS Safari isn't nearly
as fully featured but both still "feel" like Safari. It doesn't have to
be "exact", and I didn't mean to imply that, if that's what came across.
--
- Rufus
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