Android Uses WebKit

By admin // Dev, Google, WAP, WebKit // No Comments

android My guess was wrong.

I somehow thought Google will partner with Firefox as a defaul browser for their new mobile project (now “Android”), however, Google’s choice was WebKit, accordeing to their SDK. Actually now I think this is a wise choice, since many (mobile) web devs are familiar with developing with WebKit thanks to Apple to make iPhone popular. And needless to say, WebKit for mobile including Nokia N-series is the one of the beat browser around.Anyway, as the storonger-than-ever WebKit is gaining even more power, “Sarfin’ Safari” (Webkit.org’s blog) has announced new features for Safari 3:

Enhanced Rich Text Editing
Faster JavaScript and DOM
Faster Page Loading
SVG
XPath
New and Improved XML Technologies
Styleable Form Controls
Advanced CSS Styling
Reduced Memory Use
Web Developer Tools

Nov
10

Opera Mini Out of Beta

By admin // Dev, Opera, WAP // No Comments

Looks like Opera Mini 4 is now official. I just updated Opera Mini on N95 and played around.

Although I don’t know if there’s any new features added from Beta 4, the nice new features added for 4 (compared to 3) includes “mini” version of the entire web page, just like Nokia’s WebKit, and landscape mode.

The page rendering speed seems to be just as fast as I expected – faster than WebKit.

As long as I’ve been testing on the beta and now this official 4, as a web developer, I am happy with the improvement on CSS support. So many pages that looked like crap on Opera 3, are now beautifully rendered. It supports better table layout and more semantic markups (Now, I can use the strong, H1 tags etc. without making terrible mess) and CSS3 including media queries. Although limited, it supportes some JavaScript events as well.

Also, Opera launched a developers’ community site called Dev Opera recently, to help us developing better on Opera.

Nov
5

gPhone Announcement Today – but I post yPhone

By admin // Girlie Stuff, Yahoo! // No Comments

I came back from Japan last week and finally I am recovered from jet lag.

Anyway, today, I will hear more details on gPhone announcement later, but I post this pink “yPhone” pic I took during my stay in Japan.

yPhone?

Unfortunatelly, this is not a gPhone-competitor or anything sexy that excites the US mobile users… actually, this is my friend’s phone by Softbank*, equipped with “Y!” button to launch Yahoo! Japan apps.

*Notes: Softbank Corp. owns Vodafone Japan, also its subsidaries includes Yahoo!

Nov
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