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Can the n900's browser deal with the facebook.com Home page?

Not the mobile version, but the full on desktop version with Chat, Live Feed, etc.

I'm just curious.
 
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YES!!!....its got full flash support......technically it should also be able to handle hulu.com if you watch tv shows online....

"Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, created an internet browser for the N900 that supports flash and video, so you can experience the web just like you do on your computer"
 
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Facebook's Home page isn't flash. Its just javascript heavy to the point that even the iPhone and my Tegra powered Zune HD have trouble dealing with it.

Have you tried it out?

Thanks for the reply.
 
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Can't say if the new microb has better support (doubt it). But full facebook loads great in Tear. in microb I use lite.facebook.com. But yeah use Tear.

EDIT: Also text inputted on full facebook with microb gets dyslexic, in diablo anyway. Weird bug.
 
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But this is with a N8x0, not the n900, right?
Let's not confuse people :P
 
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Of course it can my friend...
Its a computer. Not a small iPhonie that needs even a "special" app so it can run wikipedia without freezing
 
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Originally Posted by mmurfin87 View Post
Can the n900's browser deal with the facebook.com Home page?

Not the mobile version, but the full on desktop version with Chat, Live Feed, etc.

I'm just curious.
Like every other smartphone Nokia's made since 2007, it can easily handle desktop Facebook. With the Nokia N95, Nokia broke that barrier long ago. But the N900 browser is beyond the Nokia OSS browser found in Symbian devices. The only difference between this and desktop Firefox is one fits in your pocket, basically.
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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
Like every other smartphone Nokia's made since 2007, it can easily handle desktop Facebook...
It is a joke, isn't it? That smartphones can load it (sometimes if the browser doesn't break first), but I wouldn't say they can "handle" it...

Please, and about the "browser power", remember, it is a mobile device, perhaps a mobile computer, but after all it is mobile:
- small enough to fit in your hand, so you usually don't use it as a laptop or desktop pc with its big screen, precise mouse, etc.
- it uses a battery, and heavy and intense javascript, flash and things like that are not good for battery life

I am not saying that you should use a reduced version of the web, just an optimized one, taking into account the device's potential (geolocation, for example).
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So once again to clarify:
Yes, the N900 can handle the normal Facebook website, even after logging in there.
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It can handle it, yes. But as far as usability goes. Tear does a better job in regards to facebook's layout. Granted this is a personal opinion. But I'd like you to easily click the bottom right notifications menu in microb versus in Tear. I'm sure Tear has been ported so saying it's only relevant to os2008 is naive.
 
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