Engadget in open letter to Palm: Add a better browser
Published August 21st, 2007 6:32 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanEngadget today wrote an open letter to Palm with suggestions on how they can improve their Palm devices.
Here is one suggestion Engadget made:
“Add a better browser - Blazer ain’t cutting it anymore. Apple’s set a new standard with Safari on the iPhone, but pay attention to what people like Dave Winer and Michael Gartenberg are saying about its limitations. For starters, trying to replicate the desktop browsing experience on a mobile device (ANY mobile device) isn’t always a good idea. Mobile-formatted web pages work because they’re designed for smaller screens. Blazer has done a decent-enough job of formatting sites for the Treo’s screen, but you need to improve a TON of stuff.
Ajax support, tabs, the ability to toggle between WAP and regular versions of a page, and not having to reload every time you go back a page would be a good place to start. (Your new browser should be able to cache till the cows come home because mobile device users are already fighting an uphill battle against slow and spotty connections.) Just look at some of the other competition in Opera, S60, etc.; it’s not hard to see how much mobile browser innovation there’s been in the past couple of years while you’ve let Blazer rot.”
(Via Haavard)
(Palm Treo phones)
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I know why this article was probably posted (to get Palm to consider Opera on their devices), and I totally agree. Opera and Palm already have the Foleo out in the open, so installing it on other devices would be a smart step to get consistency across all of them.
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Ryan:
http://www.newsweb.no/index.jsp?messageId=148441
“Oslo, Norway - April 04, 2007 - Opera Software today announced that it has signed an agreement with Palm, Inc., to deliver its Opera 9 Web browser to Palm for use in upcoming products. Opera receives a development fee, license fees and support and maintenance fees under the Agreement to provide full Web browsing to Palm.”
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Yeah, Daniel, I think you maybe missed the significant conclusion from Haarvard’s post.