Comments on: WebKit Comes To Windows Mobile Devices

By: Google Browser Is Real. Another Win For Webkit - GigaOM

Google Browser Is Real. Another Win For Webkit - GigaOM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:35:53 +0000

[...] rendering engine for Nokia S60 phones, Apple’s iPhone Safari and Google Android devices. Even a Windows Mobile version is in the works. (Read: Webkit [...]

By: The Law of Mobility » Blog Archive » Enabling Technology: Week of 2/10/08

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:12:57 +0000

[...] WebKit [...]

By: Andrew Holt

Andrew Holt — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:13:30 +0000

I’m a bit disappointed, so hopefully I’m missing something. I was expecting controls and features similar to Opera Mini, but there doesn’t appear to be any decent zoom controls or rendering for a touch screen device. I have an HTC Touch, and the rendering and scrolling isn’t any better than IE Mobile.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:20:50 +0000

@Zac,

Excellent. Saving people time. I love it. I am going to link to the direct download. Thanks for helping out.

By: George Staikos

George Staikos — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:16:36 +0000

Zac, sorry you feel that way. As this is an early preview release of the Iris Browser, we’re keen to gauge the level of interest we’re getting and get some idea of who is downloading it.

We deliberately chose not to put any kind of complex registration process in place so that – as you pointed out – if people want to remain anonymous by entering junk info in the form, for whatever reason, they’re free to do so.

For those people who really like the Iris Browser, we hope that they would be willing to give us their real contact details. Support is a whole lot more personal when you have a real person to deal with. We will always respect the privacy of anyone who gives us their email address, of course.

-- George Staikos, President, Torch Mobile

By: Zac Garrett

Zac Garrett — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:40:16 +0000

Wonderful, they force you to register to download the software. Welcome to 1999.

They really don’t do any form checking, so inputting “spam” as the name and “spam@spam.com” works just fine. They probably won’t like me posting this, but the direct download to the current version: (link)

Funny thing is, I don’t even use Windows Mobile; I just find these stupid forms that are forced on users irritating.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:03:28 +0000

Yes you are right about that. It is pretty good and I have been enjoying it a lot. I just wanted to focus entirely on mobile only for the sake of this post.

By: Saptarshi

Saptarshi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:51:18 +0000

Not just on S60 or iPhone… Apple’s Safari is also using WebKit on the desktops…. And the last nightly build that they released was some 3x faster than old Safari and 2x times faster than Firefox!! Webkit is surely beginning to rock…