Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: skyfire, mobile, browser | Themes: Software, Smartphones
3. Pages and Plug-Ins
Because Skyfire is based on a standard browsing engine, standard plug-ins work, including Flash, Silverlight, and Acrobat, as do QuickTime, Windows Media, Java, SVG, JavaScript, and CSS. At sites with Flash applications, for example, you can watch videos on YouTube or at open video links friends email you instead of having to load a separate YouTube application. That’s even more useful for the many sites (like Hulu) that use Flash video but don't have specific hand-held or mobile phone applications.
Silverlight isn’t nearly as common on the Web as Flash is, but there are still sites that use it for navigation and Skyfire supports these. Complex Silverlight applications won’t work (and neither will some Flash apps and games), you can't enter text in a Flash or Silverlight app, and there are issues with the Netflix, Pandora, and Rhapsody media players because Skyfire doesn’t let them work with local files.
Skyfire also has Adobe Reader built in so if you click the link to a .PDF file, it will open in Reader inside Skyfire. You get the full Reader controls, including page navigation, but this can be a little fiddly to work with.
- Previous page Zoom When You Want To
- Next page CSS and JavaScript
Now, if only they would release an iPhone app for this...
I'm not much for windows mobile after I used the BlackJack. It tends to slowly turn to crap as time progresses. It would be really nice to see this technology on a phone that's already championed as the best phone ever (generally).
This browser looks great and does great, except for smth. that is important for a phone like mine (Nokia E51) with a smaller screen: it cannot rotate the page which is annoying esp. when watching video...
somehow i cant see a third-party app beating a native browser, then again we have firefox....
@pocketdrummer; Skyfire can't produce a version for iPhone (keen as the team would be to do it) as Apple doesn't allow other browsers on the iPhone.
@pocketdrummer; Skyfire can't produce a version for iPhone (keen as the team would be to do it) as Apple doesn't allow other browsers on the iPhone.
there are alternatives im sure of it but there more based on the integrated safari?
I wonder how skyfire stacks up against bolt? It would be nice if this worked on my 8230...
Now, if only they would release an iPhone app for this...I'm not much for windows mobile after I used the BlackJack. It tends to slowly turn to crap as time progresses. It would be really nice to see this technology on a phone that's already championed as the best phone ever (generally).
Sorry to hear of your WinMo experience. I have the 2yr old Tilt on AT&T and haven't looked back since. Had to replace only once after having dropped it...Oop's! Waiting till my November date to get my discounted TP2. Of course my WinMo is XDA hacked running SPB Shell 3.0