Re: Opera Mini 4 versus iphone Safari

ZnU wrote:
> In article >
> I haven't seen browsers getting "clogged" except by fairly pathological
> code in years. And I'm in the web app business.
>

so am i. notice that our main topic here is the phone browser so
having lots of processing on the phone using ajax type webapps is
slower than not having to rely on those webapps.

> Java apps tend to be significantly heavier, in terms of memory
> footprint, loading time, etc. than AJAX apps. There's a reason
> client-side Java embedded in the browser has virtually disappeared, to
> be replaced by lightweight JavaScript and back-end server processing.

Java applets, like flash, are obviously heavier than javascript. But
i'm talking about resident client apps, which the iphone will not have
and which has many developers disappointed.  The point is that instead
of having the browser run all thses webapps with storage on the server
(which again contributes to lots of back and forth data as well as
privacy issues) having resident apps takes the load off from the
browser and means you can run them away from the network as well.

Btw. you might want to tell all those companies who use applets that
they're dead, including yahoo and other big companies. applets aren't
much used as banner ads, a space now taken by flash. but they are
heavily used in web games, web cam apps. chat rooms, and many
enterprise web clients like webex.