On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:05 PM, David Storey wrote:
>
> On 5 Aug 2010, at 21:12, tee wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Having done 2 full sites+ many exercise mobile sites, I view at Opera Mini
>> (including the Mobile 10) the Internet Explorer 6+7, it's a browser one will
>> hate it, curse it more than praise it :-(
>
> What are your issues with Opera Mobile (Opera Mini has known restrictions as
> it is designed for low-end devices which can't power a full browser; .
>
> Are you mixing up Mini and Mobile,
Oops, I must be. Mini and Mobile sounded very much the same browser to me, and
I got an impression that Opera had consolidated the two name from Mini to
Mobile 10 since the version 5.
So the one I been using is Opera Mini 5 in my iPod (should this be called a
smart phone equivalent?) , but it does look to me like a full browser (and with
many quirks).
I have experienced many issues in Opera Mini 5 which took quite a bit of time
to get rid of, some were fixed, but these two are quite stubborn.
1. Pre tag - in portrait view if a line of content is longer than the device
width, it doesn't wrap.
2. padding issue (I think) in the input. If I add a background image like so
and the image has a width of, say, 12px
input {
background: url(search-icon.png) no-repeat left top;
padding: 1px 2px 1px 16px
}
The input has a value of "search site", the text should be pushed 16px to the
right. Andriod and Safari obeyed the rule, but Opera Mini ignores the padding
rule which resulting the text and background image overlapped.
I am sure I will find more issues in this browser as I get more opportunities
to work on Mobile version of websites.
I often think Opera desktop has paddings/margins/line-height bug related to EM
and % which seems never fixed, but then it might be Opera way of handling them,
and they are carried over to Mini. A browser that has only 5+% usage (based
from many stats of the sites I did) and offers no browser specific option for
developer to tackle a slight difference that maybe required at time, does make
a web developer hard to love it and embrace it :-)
tee
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