True Internet?

[smf98aggie]

Does anyone think Palm will ever come out with true html internet on the 680? I know a lot of you have connections with people that work at Palm, so I figured someone would have some input on this. I hate how my internet is on my phone. I have important sites that don't work right on it, and I'm sick of it. It seems that with all the new smartphones coming out having "true" internet, maybe Palm will bone up and change the crappy blazer browser to something that's actually useful.

[benjie]

True Internet? I believe your problem is with the browser - there are others out there that work and might meet your needs. For most of us though, Blazer works fine. As a note, there is not a browser out there on any platform that supports every available site on the Internet.

Ben

[smf98aggie]

I'm talking about a browser that works like the iPhone and the Cingular 8525. It pulls up webpages exactly as they appear on a computer.

I've already tried OperaMini, but it kept freezing, and wasn't much better than blazer, so I erased it.

[mwh3030]

I'm talking about a browser that works like the iPhone and the Cingular 8525. It pulls up webpages exactly as they appear on a computer.

I've already tried OperaMini, but it kept freezing, and wasn't much better than blazer, so I erased it.

how did you get it. I'm trying to get it for my centro

[smf98aggie]

I just Googled Operamini, and downloaded it into my computer. Then, put it in QuickInstall and Synced. I actually reloaded the new version last week, and it works a little better.

[Splicer]

You also might try switching Blazer from "Optimized Mode" to "Wide Page Mode" or vice versa. "Wide Page Mode" is closer to the rendering that you'll get in a desktop browser, though you'll likely have to scroll horizontally to see everything.

Forgive me if you've already tried that. It certainly won't give you exactly the same experience as on a desktop. That's just not going to happen on a 320 x 320 pixel screen and a 300-odd mHz processor when your desktop likely has at least a 1280 x 960 screen and two or three gHz (and possibly two or four processors at that speed).

The iPhone browser is excellent, and does what it does far better than Blazer, but even it isn't going to give you a perfect rendering all the time.

Besides, the entire point of HTML's existence is to support different modes of rendering on devices of different capabilities. Almost every time I see a site that doesn't work in Blazer, checking the source shows it to have pitifully non-compliant HTML. It's far more likely that the sites you're looking at are the ones that are not "true html internet". I know that doesn't help you except to suggest that you complain to the maintainers of the sites, because if nobody tells them that they care about websites that are truly world-wide websites, they'll keep on making sites that only work in MSIE and lock out the rest of the world.

OK, I'm getting off my soapbox now. Sorry about that.