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09/05/2011, 11:54 AM
#156
 Originally Posted by bugmenot
You want to know what my biggest beefs with the browser are? One, no background downloading. Every single other OS does this. Open a new tab in the background and it loads while you are on the current tab. Not with WebOS it doesn't. Do this for me:
Open any webpage. Longpress on a link and select "open in new card". When it zooms out showing you now 2 browser cards, tap on the original. Wait, well idk, 3-4 weeks and then tap the "home" button and open up the newly created card. Watch as it starts loading the page and rendering it. That is inexcusable. Makes browsing the web annoying and tedious.
Tabbed browsing on Android is FANTASTIC. IDK what you are talking about. Of course the fact that you have over a dozen VERY good browsers to choose from is helpful as well. Download Miren, its pretty awesome and blows away any other browser I have used. Opera Mobile is by far the best for smoothness and flash on Android. Also, editing text depends completely on which version of Android you are running, as they have updated and improved upon it.
And believe me, I am by no means going in depth with my criticisms of WebOS. I have had this thing for a week and it has reminded me of WM6.5 more and more each day with the bugs and limitations. I actually said out loud "No *&$#ing way" when the Youtube icon launched the browser, LOL. And seriously, what is with the sound just stopping working? I am by far not the only one, go check XDA. The fact that I have to toggle the sound through a complicated Xecutah/Xterm command line to get it to function properly is ridiculous.
Android is more like Winmo than any OS out there in regards to having to be rebooted quite often and needing to hack it to make it more functional. I loved Winmo for what it was, even PalmOS was cool for what it was and I still have both available whenever my WebOS phone goes caput (don't think i spelled that right...anywho). Yes both were a little buggy (I only mean the need to have to reboot every once in a while, as you still have to do with all of the smartphones nowadays), but the pure PDA portions of the O/S's still did more than anything that's available now, and I mean by default. I'm not talking about the need to add apps to it to make it functional or to be able to do just the basic things those old O/S's were capable of doing. No O/S has the built in privacy and basic PDA Functions of PalmOS and so far the only O/S that is even remotely close to the hackability of Winmo is WebOS....Meaning you don't have to root either O/S to make system changes to the UI.
The only thing I actually like about Android is the fact that you have free Navigation built in the software and it's live tiles and widgets, but just like IOS, it looks just like the old PalmOS and Winmo in regards to just being a homescreen with Icons. I've done so much hacking on Winmo I don't feel like I want to do that on a new O/S that's supposed to be superior, but the occasional patch, which is all you'll need for WebOS is easy as pie.
To get back on point to reply to your post about the WebOS browser, that's the stock browser and seems to be the only one you've tried. Compare that to Androids stock browser only, not all of those other browsers you've mentioned. I do agree with the problem you mentioned about having to wait until the new webpage card loads before you can go back to the original card to start viewing it again without it being blurry, but it's not that much of a problem if you believe that's the way they intended for it to work. Open up your new webpage card, let it load, read what it has to say, minimize it then go back to your original webpage. if you do it like that you'd never know the original card was unreadable, but I can see how that can be unacceptable since the main push about WebOS is how it can multitask.
What's the big deal of a tabbed browsing when you can open a new webpage in a new card and still group only those cards together? I mean really, I don't know but I see a lot of comments about that and it just puzzles me, that's one of the differences in the O/S, why make it like what you see in Android. WebOS does have another option and that's "Advance Browser" which does tabbed browsing, if you want to compare something to none standard Android browsers compare that instead of the WebOS stock browser then post your comparisons.
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