There are lots of differences between desktop and mobile environments and so the limitations and challenges exist that do not enable similar user experience of web browsing of desktop on small screen mobile phone. So, there are challenges desktop environment has in terms of handheld perspective. Probably there is no real unique way to adapt widescreen content to fit in mobile screens. However, there are numerous possibilities and people are talking about different architectures and rendering algorithms and attempts are being made to best fit in mobile small screen. An application of rendering like a browser is by far the best attempt to get the best of both desktop and mobile worlds. However, the analysis of the comparison between desktop and mobile phone web browsing shows mobile browser has a good potential but does not provide a consistent user experience across desktop and mobile devices. Participants were however, not completely dissatisfied.
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evaluation was conducted in lab environment, participants did not face problems of long downloads and broken connection. But, because of the major difficulty of locating the content in the long pages, participants had frustrating experience using the mobile web browser as they spent significant time in navigation by extensive scrolling and fully concentration on browsing rather than actual content.
It may not be possible to achieve exactly same user experience on two different device but the problems can definitely be reduced. It is very important to give users a feeling of control over the site and they should never get lost within the page. Also, users should not be restricted to think this is the best way to look at the web site by looking at a particular format, as different users may have different preferences. Browser support for multiple layout modes such as natural fit, fit to screen width and text only and other possible ways of viewing the same content could give the great flexibility. In the small screen, browser should also give clear indication of how long the page is and where in the page the user is.
In the small-screen mobile phones, users had to navigate using a joystick which users are not used to of when it comes to web browsing. Possibility of selecting the scroll bar and drag it up or down the page will allow smoother and quicker navigation and easier ways to go back and forward on the visited pages will also aid easier navigation.
Eliminating or moving long lists of links is one of the main design changes that mobile-authoring guidelines suggest content providers/developers should make; Opera Mini can do it programmatically [28]. Now, Opera Mini has included the ability to detect long lists of links (like the ones generally found on the
sidebar of websites), and collapse them, which reduces the amount of scrolling. Clicking on the small icon near the collapsed links will expand the list. But, if the page has lots of collapsed sections, it might be difficult to find section where the content is located, especially if the user is not familiar with the page. It would be a good idea to let users view the page first and collapse the sections as they scroll down, including the advertisements (not just the group of links) as or when they feel necessary.
Some desirable features such as, find or search function within the page, copy text from web page to clipboard and use it in other application, bookmark manager using folders, possibility to view browser landscape, ability to use other function of the phone without existing from browser and saving web page for offline viewing could immensely enhance the functionality of the browser. The new version supports for SSL/TLS which will help increase the confidence of users to use the secure pages and will also increase the use of mobile web for commerce.
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