Comments on: Apple Lets Alternative Browsers Onto the iPhone. Sort of! http://technologizer.com/2009/01/14/apple-lets-alternative-browsers-onto-the-iphone-sort-of/ Reviews, News, and Opinion About Personal Technology by Harry McCracken & Friends Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ifoneguy http://technologizer.com/2009/01/14/apple-lets-alternative-browsers-onto-the-iphone-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-33192 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:38:23 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=6740#comment-33192 I need alternate browser for the fact that safari wont open some sites. Such as officelive.com.

]]> By: EddyKilowatt http://technologizer.com/2009/01/14/apple-lets-alternative-browsers-onto-the-iphone-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-7674 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:59:53 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=6740#comment-7674 A better browser would certainly be up there on my list of could-be-betters… along with copy/paste and a sideways (landscape) keyboard in email and other text apps.

And my definition of ‘better’ is pretty minimal. How about a cache for starters? Waiting for re-load of a page you just surfed away from ten seconds ago gives lots of time to contemplate the lameness of whoever configured the iPhone’s browser…

Eddy

]]> By: Aktariel http://technologizer.com/2009/01/14/apple-lets-alternative-browsers-onto-the-iphone-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-7643 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:09:40 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=6740#comment-7643 Can has Fennec, plx? kthxbai.

No seriously. I doubt that Apple will ever allow any browser that isn’t simply a Safari reskin, or at most WebKit based, to be on the iPhone.

Which is a shame, because it means that jailbreakers get the goods, like always. Except, of course, that there isn’t as much impetus to develop a version of, say, Fennec for the iPhone, since the userbase is nowhere near as large.

]]> By: Opera on the iPhone? Maybe. Someday. | Technologizer http://technologizer.com/2009/01/14/apple-lets-alternative-browsers-onto-the-iphone-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-7641 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:54:26 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=6740#comment-7641 [...] company has opened the floodgates for Safari rivals to make their way onto iPhones. Not true–the new apps all use Safari’s WebKit rendering engine and are therefore piggybacking on Safari rather than trying to replace it. But I happened to have a [...]

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