Review: Dorothy Browser Beta 0.2.0

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Just when information technology looked as if the mobile web browser market place had settled down a bit, another one emerges from the shadows. Dorothy Browser is the latest webkit powered browser to striking the Windows Mobile scene. Dorothy is merely for WM Professional devices (no word if a Standard Version is to follow) with a 400mhz or higher processor, 128mb or greater RAM and screen resolution of 800x480. It will work on smaller screens simply you'll but demand to scroll around more.

Dorothy Browser is in Beta development and so operation was sporadic. Pages loaded fast merely seemed to stall half way every so oftentimes. That concluding fiddling fleck of the page load seemed to have forever to complete. I didn't experience any lock-ups but at that place's plain still some work to be done on the page load end.

While performance still has some bugs to iron out, follow the interruption to see what impression the awarding's features and design made.

To download Dorothy, yous need to visit Dorthybrowser.com and sign upward for the Beta test. Once a verification electronic mail is sent, another email is sent with the download link (that expires after 24 hours so don't dilly coquet). Installation was uneventful and in a matter of minutes I had Dorothy up and running.

The layout reminded me of Opera's browser. The chief screen has the URL window (with front/dorsum/terminate/reload buttons), a tab for the main menu and zoom controls. Tap the main menu button (the little triangle) and information technology reveals your bill of fare options (sound familiar). Here your can return to your domicile page, add/change favorites, open some other page, and adjust settings. Notwithstanding working on what the "+" sign is supposed to do. Unfortunately, there's not plenty chatter on Dorothy'southward blog and the developer didn't include whatever instructions with the Beta release.

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Some won't care for the zoom buttons and prefer a double-tap-to-zoom feature. Personally, it doesn't make a divergence to me but the double-tap-to-zoom characteristic does make life a little easier. The zoom buttons do assistance you lot avert accidentally double-tapping a web link.

Pages are touch navigable or yous tin can utilize your phone's directional pad (if you have ane). In testing the Beta version out on the AT&T Fuze pages scrolled rather nicely. When you bear on the screen to gyre the bottom buttons disappear and are replaced with a horizontal indicator to show you where you lot're at in relation to the full page.

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Dorothy Browser seems to have promise and if they tin can shore upward the folio load times, it will definitely requite Iris, Opera and Skyfire a run for their coin. Browser design will definitely exist an issue of personal preference and those who don't treat zoom buttons may look elsewhere. It is a piece of work in progress and so the last version may exist noticeably different than the early Beta builds. We'll go on an eye Dorothy and run across if it'due south worth the trip downwards the xanthous brick road.

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