WHAT WEB DEVELOPERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OPERA MINI?

Opera web browser has launches its small scaled version for Apple iOS. It is a completely redesigned product and it offers three different browser modes. They are there to save money and time for their users whenever the network is slow and other browsers are too heavy to handle the slow network. 

This browser will run in mini mode if you have upgraded it from the previous versions else new installation of this browser will result in running in the turbo mode. About 244 million users are experiencing the mini mode of opera browser. This mode is there to direct all the traffic from the opera browser and then it shrinks them up to 90% and then sends them to the client devices.

 This helps the pages download faster. But the drawback is that some extra CSS things, animations and corners etc are dropped in doing so. This does not support web fonts due to the download overhead. Opera is currently busy to work more upon this mini browser because it wants it to upgrade to the newer Presto version. This will help it benefit more as the upgrade system will perform on their respective servers.

On the other hand, the turbo mode is very different from the mini mode. This is rendered on an iphone or and iPad but some media and images can also get compressed on the servers. The JavaScript and CSS act like normal. This mode is famous for its efficiency and high speed. It also helps in controlling the quality of the images. 

In the uncompressed mode, as the name indicates, there is no compression at all. When you have a fast working Wi-Fi, this mode is the most suitable than all. Some rendering engines are the same as that of the turbo mode.