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disolitude on 21 January 2013
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torok said:
disolitude said:
dsgrue3 said:
Surface looks much more fluid, but I think his gripes about switching from mobile -> web on Nexus 10 Chrome are obsolete. At the end, when he's zooming on both tablets is he using the mobile or web version or a facebook app? I have a suspicion it's either a facebook app or mobile version on Nexus 10 which is why he can only zoom so far.


I agree, its a minor issue at best.

A bigger issue for me is that the high res screen on the nexus is actually hurting the web experience since all images are upscalling and looking fuzzy. 

That and the lag and slowness on the nexus obviously...

Actually, the Nexus devices aren't laggy (I've a N7 and it's absurdly fast). The Chrome browser version in it is a little heavy indeed, but it have the advantage of beeing very complete for a mobile browser, rendering pages exactly like the desktop version. Some sites are faster on my WP IE browser, but it isn't rendering pages like the desktop browser, with a lot of missing parts and problems specially with CSS and JS, so it isn't a good comparison.

I agree there are some CSS issues with IE but this is mainly because pages tend to be designed for Webkit browser. You will run in to occasional dropdowns not working properly etc on IE browsers... So Microsoft has to improve there for sure. Maybe provide a "webkit" remder emulator mode.

However the overall user experience and fluidity of the IE on the Surface is still noticable. And this is on the lowly Tegra 3. iPad browser runs on a chip which is supposdly twice as fast. 

With that said, Nexus 10 is probably hurt with the massive amount of pixels it needs to render which also hurts the images quality due to upscalling. I am positive nexus 7 and other tablets run a bit smoother.