Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: skyfire, mobile, browser | Themes: Software, Smartphones
6. CSS Performance: Flickr
We also timed loading a user’s Photostream page on Flickr. This shows the last 18 photos plus thumbnails for sets and has many scripts running on the page as well as a complex CSS layout. The page loads three times as fast in Skyfire as it does in the iPhone Safari browser and on a 3G or WiFi connection. With an EDGE connection, Skyfire is as fast or faster at loading the page as a 3G iPhone is. That’s due to a combination of the images being compressed, which are thus faster to load, and the complex CSS rendering being done on the server rather than on the phone.
The CSS layout of the Flickr site looks clean and simple but it’s technically demanding. Both Skyfire and Safari cope with all the CSS and lay out the page correctly, as if you were viewing it in a desktop browser. Opera and the BlackBerry browser take much longer to load the page and neither shows the full and correct layout, but they do both load the full Flickr site rather than defaulting to the mobile version, which is a smaller page with less functionality (it only shows four images and none of the sets).
The combination of images, scripts, and CSS make Flickr a challenging site for a mobile browser and the size of images does a good job of testing browser performance.
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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