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Yikes, I'm clearly trying to do too many things.
Our browser has another accolade -- well, sort of. I actually think it would make a great T-shirt slogan: The Dreaded Browser.
This has nothing to do with browsing. The new 5300 is not even an S60 (it's a Series 40 phone) but it's pretty nice anyway. I used one of these for a couple of months. The teenagers I know, though, don't think much of the form factor.
Cursor the mouse
has been missing the past few days; something to do with the warm spring weather in Boston?
A Nintendo DS with a browser -- that would be (will be!) pretty cool.
The discussion about browsing vs. mobile browsing; web vs. mobile web continues...
There seem to be a number of people who want the S60 Browser to be available outside the S60 platform release system -- for example, as a SIS file -- and be upgradeable without, you know, reflashing your entire phone (or buying a new one). Believe it or not, we agree. But we don't control everything... yet...<note_to_self>insert evil laugh here</note_to_self> and so far our argument hasn't carried the day. Some more suggestions can't hurt, either to the S60 Wish List or to Nokia. You'll probably have to navigate to your region, then look for a Contact Us link.
Like it says in Alice's Restaurant, if two people do it, they'll think...*ahem* well, you have to check the lyrics for that, but if fifty people do it, it's a movement!
One approach to making the web usable on tiny devices is to use a "smart" server that modifies the original content in some way. Here's an example: Intelligent Mobile Platform from InfoGin. It looks like they're reformatting content to eliminate horizontal scrolling, which is the most common approach.
It has certain advantages for some tasks, but I can't help noticing it changes the experience of mobile browsing to "scrolling a list". This works fine if your view of the Web is, I dunno, an online order-taking system. That sounds dismissive, but systems like that are great; I'm in favor of anything that saves me from physically shopping. But that's hardly all there is to the Web. I'd like to have a narrow-but-tall page layout sometimes, but I'm not convinced it's a good solution in all cases.
To be fair, I haven't had a chance to use IMP extensively; all I've seen is demos. Maybe they have more flexible solutions in the package that do exactly what I want, which means adaptation to user context as well as screen size.
It says here that InfoGin has partnered with InfoSpace .
