Silicon Valley start-up Skyfire Labs, which is backed by $17.8m in VC cash, has grabbed a lot of column inches with its mobile browser offering - even though it's still only a beta release and only relatively recently a public beta. Like Opera, Skyfire uses proxy servers to offload the loading of web pages for faster surfing, and also makes use of the Gecko rendering engine. Its biggest claim to fame is Flash and Java support - the likes of iPlayer, YouTube et al work as they do on the full-fat internet, embedded in the page. Currently Skyfire only supports Canada, UK and US regions but it's certainly a browser to watch.
Features
• Flash, JavaScript and Ajax support, plus other browser plug-ins such as Silverlight and QuickTime
• Use of a proxy server to load web pages then deliver a rendered image to the user - which can make for speedier mobile surfing. It also means websites are the same as when surfing on a desktop computer
• Support for landscape browsing
Lacks
• Worldwide availability (as yet)
• Various issues/bugs to iron out associated with the proxy method - such as blurred text on web pages, and slowness to load portions of pages in some instances
• Cut and paste
• Tabbed browsing
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