Mobile browser panel
summary
Panel delivers concrete numbers, timelines and trade-offs: 102 million monthly users and “60 billion pages” served via Opera Mini’s server proxy (huge data compression), Opera Mobile 11 ships a new Presto stack and ~50M monthly Mobile users, Nokia maintains two browsers in development (Symbian WebKit plus S40 proxy browser with some engines end‑of‑life), BlackBerry moves to WebKit from OS6 onward and PlayBook already supports h.264 video and true position:fixed, vendors demo device APIs (getUserMedia, device element) but warn specs and privacy prompts still change.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 5:01Browser challenges
- 12:10Mobile browser differences
- 25:00Device APIs and standards
- 37:44Video codecs and HTML5
- 42:42Viewport meta tag
- 50:13Web compatibility
- 1:01:39Wrapping web apps
- 1:13:00Auto-updates and testing
- 1:21:53Feature roadmaps
- 1:30:32Q&A on responsive design
- 1:39:26Closing thoughts
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