Web browser news as it happens
In: Mobile Browsers| Safari
17 Feb 2010Adobe has come out saying that it is confident that Apple will eventually cave and allow Flash to make it onto the iPhone.
“Our goal is to provide a consistent runtime that spans devices, inclusive of [mobile and] desktop operating systems,” said Flash marketing director Adrian Ludwig at this weeks Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Adobe is [...]
In: Opera
11 Feb 2010Opera Software plan to preview Opera Mini for iPhone at the 2010 Mobile World Congress.
“We are thrilled to offer journalists and partners an exclusive preview of Opera Mini for iPhone during the year’s biggest mobile event,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software.
“This is a unique opportunity to introduce the fast, feature-rich [...]
Opera Mobile is now the most used mobile browser world wide according to SiteCounter for the month of May.
Opera Mobile took the lead for the month with 24.6% of the worldwide market compared to 22.3% for the iPhone. This statistic is a little misleading however, as with iPod touch added to the total, it comes [...]
In: Browser Watch
16 Apr 2009Trend Micro – a major security firm – have released a web browser called Smart Surfing suitable for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The browser benefits by blocking browsers from accessing malicious sites, using Trend Micro’s Web Reputation technology.
A list of features include:
Secured by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network
Blocks access to Web pages with malicious [...]
The latest nightly build of WebKit now includes support for CSS animations. WebKit is the rendering engine used by many browsers, including Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome browser.
Dean Jacksons explains the benefits of CSS animations:
CSS Animations is one of the enhancements to CSS proposed by the WebKit project that we’ve been calling CSS Effects (eg. [...]
Apple has begun approving 3rd party web browsers for the iPhone and iPod touch. The move comes after speculation that Apple was denying apps that competed with it’s own.
It is hoped that this move could allow Opera Mobile to make finally make debut on the iPhone. Current web browser apps include Edge Browser, Incognito, Shaking [...]
In: Internet Explorer| Safari
23 Dec 2008With 2009 fast approaching, details for IE Mobile 6 have started to appear. The latest mobile Internet browser from Microsoft should bring a positive change to the web browser market.
Currently, there are still no screenshots available, as Microsoft has made all beta testers and OEM’s sign NDA’s, but details on the new browser are starting [...]
In: Safari
27 Nov 2008EMG Technology is suing Apple over an alleged patent infringement in its mobile version of Safari.
EMG is seeking an unspecified amount in damages, claiming the “simplified interface of reformatted mobile content to provide optimum viewing and navigation with single touches on a small screen” as a reason for the suit.
Patent 7,441,196 was issued in October [...]
In: Opera
30 Oct 2008It looks like we won’t see a browser war for the iPhone just yet, with Apple refusing to let Opera Mini be released for the iPhone.
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, Opera’s co-founder and chief executive said that “Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t [...]