Iris Browser (Safari) For Windows Mobile

[Guest smilepak]

FYI...

Iris Browser, based upon Safari's Engine (WebKit), is out of beta and is in official release.

http://www.torchmobile.com/download/

http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=19

[Guest Chugworth]

I tried it and I like it pretty good. It doesn't zoom quite as well as Opera Mobile 9.5, but it seems a bit faster. It also can show web pages designed for the iPhone. Another interesting thing is that it shares cookies with Internet Explorer. So for example, if you log in to Google with Internet Explorer and exit out, then when you start Iris and access Google, it will already be logged in.

I haven't decided which browser I will use more though. Opera is better for reading text since it resizes text columns to fit the screen.

Edited February 22, 2009 by Chugworth

[Guest lrlfc]

I have been using Iris, I quite like it, my only moan is that it does not work on the Omnia with phonepad input for text, it only works with the qwerty pad.

Unless thats a fault from my rom, BOHH5 on T Mobile

[Guest zagzag99]

1.1.1 and 1.1.2 seems slower and sluggish compared to 1.0.16 that I used before.

Auto-Zoom isn't perfect... when you're trying to zoom-in on a page. You have to choose "Zoom 100%" manually from the menu.

On Omnia it doesn't support the Keypad keyboard and the xt9 in general. It's sad.

And I have also a problem with it's hebrew support :-(

NetFront and Opera are better.

I hope Skyfire will be perfect once it will end it's beta.

[Guest travelbug]

I have been using Iris, I quite like it, my only moan is that it does not work on the Omnia with phonepad input for text, it only works with the qwerty pad.

Unless thats a fault from my rom, BOHH5 on T Mobile

hey man im on hk3 and i get the same problems too.

have to use the samsung keyboard or transcriber to ebter text.

other than that iris is a real kickass browser! super fast and beautiful rendering.

my only gripe would be the lack of text wrap like opera

and no flashlite - but i use skyfire for that :(

[Guest Chugworth]

They released an update which fixes a few bugs and improves JavaScript performance:

http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=20

You know, it's interesting... I ran Google's JavaScript benchmark from from the Iris browser on my phone, and it got the following scores:

score 13.5

ric 12.4

del 8.46

cry 31.3

ray 10.4

ear 25.5

reg 6.99

I then ran the benchmark from Opera Mobile 9.5, and I got the following scores:

score 5.07

ric 3.04

del 4.65

cry 8.57

ray 8.36

ear 9.76

reg 1.71

Quite interesting... Iris is quickly becoming my favorite mobile browser!

[Guest travelbug]

i also ran the acid3 teston both opera and iris browser

opera scores q 58/100

while iris got a perfect 100/100 which is unheard of for mobile browsers, well up until now!

edit: the new build of opera 9.5 actually got up to 76/100 though...

Edited February 25, 2009 by travelbug