
Mobile Safari iPhone 3GS vs. Android's Browser
4 months ago
A dumb video for my dumb Android blog.
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So maybe the site owner should start checking up on the code, because browsers handle code differently, specially when the code does not validate correctly.
I tried on two different Android phones and yes it does get laggy when your gallery is on the screen, but I can still use the browser without problems.
I agree the stock browser isn't amazing, though reports are claiming it has gotten quite an update in Android 4.0, but it's no where nearly as bad as it's portrait.
And here is the great thing about it, if you don't like the stock browser, there are alternatives. Eg. I'm using Opera Mobile 11.5, because it's super fast, has a nice UI, still has flash suppport (on demand) and sync of favorites.
And no I'm not gonna make a video, if you don't believe me, I couldn't care less.
It is laggy but not to the extent shown here.
Stock Browser: Pretty much exactly as shown here.
Dolphin Browser HD: No better than the stock browser.
Opera Mobile: Similar experience to Mobile Safari, provided the full page loads (more often than not it only loads half the images.)
Opera Mini: Similar to Opera Mobile, but images turn into single-colour blocks while scrolling - weird.
Firefox: Crashed while loading page.
1) I never once had flash installed on my Nexus S and there is NO flash on TiMN.
2) I was running unmodified Android 2.3.7, which, up until a few days ago, was the the latest and greatest version for phones.
3) The point wasn't to show specifically how bad Browser was, but to show that iOS offers a far superior experience.
4) This happens all across the web on Android; I just happened to pick this page because it was bookmarked. Anything with a modest amount of javascript does this to Browser.
PLEASE STOP BEING INSANE HUMAN BEINGS AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIVES
(And thanks to those who had nice, non-crazy things to say.)
let me translate: this entire exercise was pointless
cool thanks for clearing that up