Web browser news as it happens
In: Mobile Browsers| WebKit
17 Feb 2010Research In Motion (RIM) – the creators of the popular BlackBerry Phone – have announced at this weeks Mobile World Congress that they will release a WebKit based browser for its range of phones.
WebKit is the popular rendering engine found powering Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome browsers.
A demonstration of an early build on a BlackBerry [...]
After an almost month long release candidate, Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox Mobile for Maemo devices.
Firefox Mobile is almost a direct port of it’s big brother Firefox, with a completely redesigned user interface for touch screens.
The browser includes the awesome bar, a download manager, early HTML5 support, tabbed browsing, add on support, [...]
In: Fennec
26 Aug 2009The Mozilla Mobile team have reached another milestone, releasing Beta 3 of the Fennec browser for Maemo based Nokia phones.
“We’ve made big improvements to kinetic panning and added the ability to scroll iframes. A lot of work has been done to make our theme more robust, taking advantage of things like media queries to [...]
In: Opera
9 Jun 2009Opera have just released Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta 1 to the web. The new version runs on the new Opera Presto 2.2 core.
The biggest new feature is Opera Turbo, which can compress data by up to 80% before it is sent to the mobile device, dramatically increasing web page loading times.
A full list of new [...]
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: 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 [...]