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turist at gmail

Aug 22, 2008, 2:43 PM

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Opera Mini for maemo?

Hi all!

Is there any way to get Opera Mini working on maemo? It seems there
is no any. The only reason to use it on a device with full Mozilla onboard
is to save traffic - Opera uses its own content processing server to
clean/sanitize html page and the economy is very big - up to 10 times
for usual page. I'm not sure about prices in all countries, but mobile Internet
is an expensive almost everywhere.

Nokia has its own decisions regarding J2ME package for maemo, there is
no any.

So there are two approcates I considered:
1. Install Jalimo(full Java port for maemo), then install Micro-emulator on it,
then install Opera Mini. Pretty huge for a small application less than 100kb
size. Never tried.
2. Capture traffic for Opera Mini, reverse its proxy's protocol and use it from
maemo's browser through some settings. Sounds great but the idea failed.
Citing wikipedia, Opera Mini not only compresses its data between the
proxy server. The data itself is not a usual HTML, it's clled OBML, where "B"
stands for binary. I tried it but could not decrypt it and google has
not helped.
I can provide .pcap files for several HTTP sessions.

So my question is if there are people who know how to have an equivalent for
Opera Mini on maemo? May be there are some other(free) web page
sanitizing proxies?
Or other suggestions?

Thanks!

--
Sincerely,
Eugene
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gary at eyetraxx

Aug 22, 2008, 3:39 PM

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Re: Opera Mini for maemo? [In reply to]

Eugene Antimirov wrote:
> May be there are some other(free) web page
> sanitizing proxies?
>
I'm not sure if this still works but one used to be able to go to
m.google.com, search for a site by FQDN, then view the page(s) sans
images, etc. that's more friendly to mobile devices.

-Gary
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gary at eyetraxx

Aug 22, 2008, 3:45 PM

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Re: Opera Mini for maemo? [In reply to]

Try this -- it's even better: http://www.google.com/gwt/n
q.v. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbrowser#Mobile_HTML_transcoders
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rabelg5 at gmail

Aug 22, 2008, 4:16 PM

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Re: Opera Mini for maemo? [In reply to]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Gary <gary[at]eyetraxx.net> wrote:
> Eugene Antimirov wrote:
>> May be there are some other(free) web page
>> sanitizing proxies?
>>
> I'm not sure if this still works but one used to be able to go to
> m.google.com, search for a site by FQDN, then view the page(s) sans
> images, etc. that's more friendly to mobile devices.
>

In MicroB, you can just turn off images completely with the little
magnifying glass on the bottom right of the toolbar.
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kemarken at broadpark

Aug 23, 2008, 1:40 AM

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Re: Opera Mini for maemo? [In reply to]

On Saturday 23 August 2008 01:16:04 Ryan Abel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Gary <gary[at]eyetraxx.net> wrote:
> > Eugene Antimirov wrote:
> >> May be there are some other(free) web page
> >> sanitizing proxies?
> >
> > I'm not sure if this still works but one used to be able to go to
> > m.google.com, search for a site by FQDN, then view the page(s) sans
> > images, etc. that's more friendly to mobile devices.
>
> In MicroB, you can just turn off images completely with the little
> magnifying glass on the bottom right of the toolbar.

true. but opera mini, by being a proxy, allows for single color squares to be
inserted where images ones was, so that one get the general idea of where
things are. also, it allows for those images to be downloaded and viewed or
saved if the user so wants.

in microb, turning of images collapse the area taken up by many of these
images. and while one in theory could bring up a menu by long-tap on them,
finding �1x1 pixel location and long-tap on it is practically impossible.

i recall making a feature request in bugzilla about it was told it was against
the html standard to do anything...
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turist at gmail

Aug 23, 2008, 3:22 PM

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Re: Opera Mini for maemo? [In reply to]

> Try this -- it's even better: http://www.google.com/gwt/n
> q.v. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbrowser#Mobile_HTML_transcoders

Yeah, that may work. May be there is a way to develop a proxy app for maemo that uses
one of these. I'll give it a try and report here.
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