Opera ports its smartphone web browser to Windows Mobile

Doug | Date: Aug 31, 2004 | Comments: 1

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Opera Software's Opera smartphone browser will soon be available for mobile handsets based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software. Opera's smartphone browser includes Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology that reformats web page content to match the size constraints of small mobile screens, thereby eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling, the company says.

Example of Opera browser's Small Screen Rendering. The left image indicates how a normal web page tends to display on a smartphone's small LCD; the right image shows how SSR renders the page.
(click each image for a larger view)

Most web pages are designed for displays at least 800 pixels wide, according to Opera. As shown in the example above, SSR identifies the web page's content and adapts elements individually to fit on smaller screens, leaving original fonts, colors, design, and style "virtually untouched."

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