![]() Less elements + higher chance something will hang = better reason to do the calculations to show what's left in the loading process. On a mobile device, however, two things are important: You send out a mobile useragent, which often gets you a simplified version of webpages, and you have a laggy, slow, fairly unreliable connection. If IE listed out every single element on a webpage and calculated how long each would load, it would probably spend more time on those calculations than actually acquiring the data through its fat pipe connection. ![]() The differences between the two are important. It's safe to say that in the author's case Internet Explorer is more likely to be hooked up to a high-speed internet connection, while xScope is most likely on a 3G mobile connection. If I were designing a loading screen, I wouldn't want to draw ire for making an entirely justifiable decision.įirst, let's look at IE vs xScope to understand how a donut and a progress bar serve slightly different uses. Internet Explorer is normally on a desktop machine, whereas xScope is a mobile browser. I just feel compelled to mount a brief defense of it, since the justification makes sense to me. The "donut" of the spinning progress circle gets a lot of shit. We don't really care as long as we can see movement. It doesn't have to be perfect if you load 2 files and one of them is 10KB and one is 10MB, but you allocate half the bar to the first one and half the bar to the second, that's tolerable. Put in a progress bar that fills up, once, until the load process is complete. Yet the tiny, free xScope browser for my Android phone includes a progress bar that shows me how much of the page has loaded. Giant Internet Explorer's little circle goes 'round and 'round, telling me nothing. However, there is one in particular that caught my eye: As always it's pretty great! I agree with a lot of the criticisms made. You can find it in the Android Market, or go to the source link and use the QR code.Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! has a new installment up at Gamasutra. Give the xScope browser a chance and let us know what you think. ![]() A Task Manager is even included so you can kill open apps and a File Explorer allows you to delete, browse or move files on your SDcard. To move from one tab to another requires just a swipe and a window can be shut with a touch of the finger. Files can get downloaded through the browser and YouTube videos can be saved to your microSD card. With Pinch-To-Zoom support and tabbed browsing, this web browser certainly is worth a peek at least by DROID and N-One users. Available for Android devices running 2.1, the xScope browser is faster than the stock Android browser and renders pages better than the Opera Mini. He isn't the only one that feels that way. Instead of rushing out to have it done, YS has been using the alternative xScope browser which he likes better anyway. When he contacted Verizon, Big Red told him that he would need a factory reset. DROID owner YS tells us, "The rest of everything is working great-just pinch zoom in the browser is not working". ![]() For some, a glitch has prevented them from getting the eagerly awaited Pinch-To-Zoom capability in the browser. Not every Motorola DROID owner was blessed by the Android 2.1 upgrade. ![]()
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