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fpp
2009-01-10 , 18:33
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My turn to try and sum up a few days' worth of usage...
* this thing is do darn *faster* that it's painful to even think of switching back...
* some types of pages also *display* better... in particular iphone-oriented mobile versions of netvibes, gmail...
* I didn't quite believe in kinetic scrolling until now, but this is fun :-)
* many thanks to pronvit for bringing this to us !
However, for daily use, these big improvements are gradually offset by the loss of small comforts I've grown used to in the standard micro-B (in most browsers, actually) :
* fixed size print on some sites is too small to read, and does not respond to zoom
* Wifi is not restarted automatically if it has disconnected
* having to re-enter logins and passwords for all sites is a drag (maybe it's possible to convert Mozilla-style credentials to Webkit format ?)
* various small hassles, like focus going to an edit box in Gmail standard view (keyboard popping up all the time), no Flash, no file download, etc.
I'm sure these could all be fixed, but if a one-man effort can get this far this fast, I'm surprised Nokia didn't do it first... hats off pronvit !
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