If you're looking to browse more swimmingly on your iPad, you needn't look any farther than Dolphin. Though some things that make it our browser Editors' Choice Android browser are missing from the iPad version, Dolphin for iPad offers a great selection of features that enhance your Web browsing, such as extensive gesture support, full screen view, and syncing. But you'll lose some JavaScript performance, since Apple only allows JavaScript acceleration for its own Safari browser. Apple limitations also mean that you won't get Adobe Flash support on the iPad. But let's take a little tour of all the clever stuff you do get in Dolphin.
Interface
When you first open Dolphin, you'll see its Speed Dial and Webzine (more on that in a moment), the same page you'll see whenever you open a new empty tab. Like that pioneered in Opera, Speed dial is simply a grid of links you want accessible all the time that shows up whenever you open a new tab. Another feature that's immediately apparent is the full-screen button in the upper left corner. This option, matched only by Mercury (another iPad browser), is really helpful, given the tablet's limited screen area compared with a computer's. As we'll see in a bit, this option ties in well with Dolphin's gesture support.
Tab implementation. Tapping a clear, big Plus sign button at top right adds a new tab. You can scroll tabs back and forth if you add more than can fit along the top of the browser, but you can't drag tabs to change their position as you can in Safari and Google Chrome for iPad. Nor do you see the X that lets you close a tab for any but the active tab?Chrome and Mercury have an edge in this regard. Only the Opera Mini and Yahoo Axis for iPad apps actually take an approach completely different from the customary desktop-style tabs, using larger tiles, but swiping in from the right in Dolphin shows larger tiles for each tab arranged vertically, making closing or reloading easier on your finger dexterity than the desktop-style tabs at the top. Likewise, swiping in from the left shows all your bookmarks.
New tabs and Webzines. What does happen when you hit that Plus sign to create a new tab in Dolphin? Something pretty unique. Well, maybe not as unique as Opera's Speed Dial apps, but to the standard popular and favorite links choices that many browsers display on their new-tab page, Dolphin adds "Webzines." These will format any site as an iPad magazine, laying out several articles in an asymmetrical four-panel layout, not unlike you'd see in the New York Times iPad app. You can swipe right-to-left to page over to more articles. Clicking on a headline fills the screen with the first three lines of the article and a link to it on the site. Missing, though, are photos for the article entries. It's a clever idea, but you're probably better off just bookmarking the actual sites.
Customization is not a strong suit for Dolphin: Unlike Mercury or Dolphin's own Android version, there's no theme capability in Dolphin for iPad, so you're stuck with the stock green border. A final necessary capability for any Safari replacement is the ability to demand the desktop version of sites. I'm happy to report that Dolphin settings include this capability, which prevents you from having dumbed-down mobile sites appear on the ample iPad screen. But you do lose Safari (and Maxthon and Mercury's) reading view, which cleans up your view of online publications by just showing the main text.
Gestures
Gestures are a natural on a touch tablet like the iPad, and using them in combination with Dophin's full-screen mode makes for a powerful one-two interface punch. To start entering a gesture, just tap the finger icon and finger-paint away. The simplest and most common type of gesture is writing a letter of the alphabet, so you needn't look like a baseball manager signaling for a stolen base to use gestures.
Dolphin come preloaded with seven useful preset gestures for things like going to the top and bottom of the page, opening a new tab, searching, and visiting popular sites like Facebook and Twitter. But a lot of the power of these gestures comes from the fact that you can create your own gestures. By contrast, Mercury only can handle eight gestures, and Chrome has no gesture support at all. There are 20 actions you can add gestures for, including actions like opening a frequently visited site, browsing back or forward, closing the current tab, bookmarking a page, toggling full-screen mode, and opening the download window.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/wCzdYa606nQ/0,2817,2409591,00.asp
type 2 diabetes occupy congress juan williams victor martinez alcatraz cruise ship martin luther king jr.
কোন মন্তব্য নেই:
একটি মন্তব্য পোস্ট করুন