So recently I had made a post “No Opera for the iPhone” about how Opera Mini was rejected based on Apple’s decision that it competed with its own browser Safari. Well this looks to be a rumor that was debunked according to the ever so popu macrumors.com website, who recently published the artlce “Opera Mini Not Rejected?”
I do believe they should have titled it “Opera Mini Not Submitted to AppStore Yet”, why? Well read the following blurb from the article.
Gruber had previously believed that the browser had been rejected due to a built-in JavaScript interpreter, however he clarifies that this was incorrect. In fact, Opera Mini does not contain such interpretive code. As explained by Gruber:
In a nut, it works like this: You request a URL in Opera Mini. Opera Mini makes the request to a proxy server run by Opera. Opera’s proxy server connects to the web server hosting the requested URL, and renders the page into an image. This image is then transmitted (in a proprietary format called OBML — Opera Binary Markup Language) to the Opera Mini client. Opera Mini displays the rendered image on screen. This may sound convoluted, but apparently the result is very effective — it’s faster to transmit, because only OBML (a compressed binary format) is transmitted to the mobile device over the phone network, and far faster to render on slow mobile processors.
So unless the iPhone gets some sort of Java support, we aren’t going to see any version of Opera on the iPhone unless done in a manner similar to a Jailbreak.
You can read the full article “No Opera for the iPhone” on macrumors.com website.