Opera Mini was finally approved in the App Store today and I was very eager to test the new browser on my phone. Opera mini is faster than Safari mobile due to Operas compression technology but o’boy does some of the sites look ugly on Opera. The double touch to zoom feature is another thing I have major issues with in Opera due to the lack of “intelligent zoom”. On top of that Opera Mini has a ugly GUI and less viewable area than Safari Mobile.

Opera Mini – Ugly icon and GUI

Screenshots

Conclusion:

Opera mini vs Safari Mobile
Fast and ugly vs slower and the way the site was meant to be viewed.

The latest version of the webkit nightly builds support the border-radius property (and -webkit-border-radius). It looks like CSS3 specifications for border-radius is going to be locked down soon. Here is a link to an article with an overview on how the browsers render the standard.