Amen brother- to me, the built in mouse gestures and cached history and customizable interface, the many milliseconds I've saved with those features alone are worth the random milliseconds of rendering time or scripting.
Me too. "Security" is an earned label that, for whatever the reason (coding, smaller market share, etc) Opera has earned. I don't particularly care that Firefox is more open with disclosing bugs than Opera may be, the bottom line is that since 2000 I've used Opera with nothing but confidence.
The original intention of my post *was* UI overhead in the context of in car distractions.
That's how I think it will play out as well. That's some good insight there Lou- consider that my +1 mod
True, and I agree with you, but the devil's in the details- like when you're texting Judy that you're going to be late and you miss your offramp exit.
But yes, voice, gesture, control etc are all very viable answers to my original concerns
What about advance features in the desktop version? For example, dragging the route in google maps desktop to avoid a certain road....can you do that via the mobile version on Android (I can't on iPhone). I like that feature
Their only saving grace are those that try to precariously do 10 million things on their phone while driving- flipping back and forth from music player, to phone, to GPS to...heaven forbid, text messaging, all that requires UI navigation- then reseting back to GPS functions. I think stand alone makers are fighting a losing battle, but they can bank a little bit on the notion of dedicated functions in automobiles.... ie, driving/moving user interfaces are NOT the place to converge functionalities and abstract them with menus and navigation. Dedicated UIs have a reasonable place in autos.
Since they do a good job at analyzing the route from A to B, it seems logical that the app should be able to cache maps along the route of a direction
Also, seems possible to get a map of cell coverage to overlay it on the route and do heaving caching for areas that have no/spotty coverage.
Seems mindnumbingly simple to implement using a google account. I always email the link to myself and then pull it up on my phone.
Offline (no data) access is the only real motivator right now- plus bottlenecks, if not of hardware (running your music, GPS, phone, etc) then certainly of UI. Managing your music while using it's GPS might not be effecient, but certainly manageable.
Search on your radius and end point destinations are not very useful- on your route is great feature to have (gas stations, rest stops etc)
how about Snow Leopard which focused heavily on optimizing it's previous incarnation? Although I don't suggest they will try to optimize for the foreseable future, it does show that they can release an OS that doesn't focus on cramming more features in.
What I found most annoying with my iPhone when I got it was the number of steps it took to get just a normal, modern (ie- not the old-school-rotary) sounding telephone ring.
They didn't even have anything like that available to buy, as ridiculous as the notion was to me. Nope, I had to go get an MP3 of a phone ringing, get it in iTunes and then do some tom-foolery with file name extensions or some such and then get it put on the phone.
am I the only one in the world that doesn't want "Ridin' dirty" or some Casio keyboard sounding marimba tone everytime I get a call?
this is the still the primary reason I use Opera as my daily driver.
Works fine for me (at least as well as FF). FF is a bit smoother at adjusting the boxes than Opera, but I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
