Seth over at ComputerWorld has been watching the nightly Webkit (the underlying browser that Nokia's S60 3rd Edition Web is based on) builds and has noted some big recent speed improvements. Apple's desktop Safari is an obvious recipient of the new code, and in due course the iPhone. Hopefully S60's Web team can also build in the same code and gain similar (up to three times) speed increases?
Read on in the full article.
We need tabbed browsing and offline browsing solutions on these Wifi devices. If Nokia would toss S60 and switch to Linux then we could just use existing solutions.
S60 features need Symbian over linux right now because of battery life.
It's not browser code that matters to me, it's the 3.5G service which is about 10 times more available than Wi-Fi around where I live and work. It's the 3.5G that makes the browser effective. The browser could render 1000 times faster and it wouldn't make the blindest bit of difference if the link was constrained by EDGE or an even slower than EDGE delivery technology.