I think it's proprieatry-heading-to-standard-approach because it is bascially a Safari Mini, and Safari is pretty close to standards.
It's apple and orange comparision to bring in old IE. Safari started out with standard compliant path, IE was not. I see Safari Mini as the early Firefox that brought the standard-compliant up to speed and lead the way in mobile web browsers (Opera mini could have that chance in the place of mobile web history! Opera Inc a software company obviously is at disadvantages), and Andriod Chrome is the first Safari when Mac users finally had their browser that works, and standard-compliant. None of the mobile web devices was and still not - I have no comment for Opera mini (is it just a mini size of Opera?) because I lack knowledge for this device. I visited hundred of sites from my itouch, all CSS layout sites are browse-able, though many need the help of optimization to make them more user-friendly and usable. Can we expect similar result from Opera mini I am curious? I think this is pretty healthy! http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/ Compare with On Apr 2, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > > No, it's proprietary approach, not a standards approach. > > It's like when people said that the very "popularity" of IE means we don't > need to deal with other browsers. I don't think that was healthy. > > > > On Thu, April 1, 2010 8:57 pm, tee wrote: >> >> On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: >> >>> This e-book is good: >>> >>> <http://mobilewebbook.com/> >>> >> I have this ebook. Second it. >> >> Isn't the very popularity of iphone, iTouch and now iPad have set a new >> direction for mobile web? At least from where I see it, it's a healthy, >> less money-wasting and more standard-compliant approach that we don't need >> to deal with many mobile web applications >> >> tee >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
