Surf with Opera Mini Mobile Browser on your cell phone
Since I was introduced with the Opera Mini mobile browser, I always used it to surf on my cell phone. I mean webs written in HTML, it is really great. Then I feel that WAP is meaningless anymore, at least to me.
It is too slow to surf with built-in HTML browsers of cell phones and it is too costly, as images on each web have 100KB to 1MB size. It is not a wise way to browser them with cell phone in this way.
How about WAP? There is few images, mostly links and the new WAP 2.0 supports XHTML, the speed and the content can be guaranteed. But it is compromised standard, there are too many features not supported by WAP (such as cookie and so on), which make HTML a better choice.
Now, we have Opera mini, I installed 3 different versions on my mobile phone. It is based on Java and about 100KB. You can visit HTML with Opera mini directly while the speed is amazing.
Because Opera mini re-renders pages at caching proxies and adapt the content to fit the screen size of mobile phones, while it only downloads text and parts of images/forms, Opera mini can keep the integration of the content with a small size. For example, the homepage of Sohu is only 46KB on Opera mini (Why Sohu, as it sucks).
Before that, I always use the WAP version of Baidu, because Baidu adapts the search results into WAP format. No, it is not necessary anymore, I can visit Google in full version directly.
Surf HTML pages with the traffic similar to WAP, so I said WAP is meaning less now. Want to try? Just visit http://mini.opera.com to have a look.
p.s. Websites designers work with XHTML standard to make migration easy, but now they only to follow basic standard without considering the conversion to WAP, because this job is done by browsers like Opera mini and mobile phones can view normal HTML/XHTML with them.
