Also, I understand why there is no Flash but I still want it.

And yes, RSS helps, believe me i have a ton of RSS links, but the whole point on the “Internet in your pocket” and the “real Web” is just that, not simply a usable RSS reader.

I would also like to see the ability to click on an audio link, and have it download and add to the iPod library, to be synced to your computer (maybe as a contextual menu option).

Not related to Safari, internet radio would be nice, too, especially once 3G is implemented.

I get frustrated with Safari at the best of times, let alone on the iPhone. To me it is just not a complete, full-featured browser that I can use both at home and at work. I don’t care so much about how screamingly fast it claims (except on the iPhone) to be - that’s not important for what I need to use browsers for. I want broad compatibility and extensibility and customization without added cost.

I’m curious about this - what is it that makes you feel that Safari isn’t a full-featured browser?

I personally think he is putting the cart before the horse. Safari is probably the best example of an browser following web standards. the issue is not with safari, but with websites that do not follow these standards.

I think you should consider that your issues with iPhone Safari’s rendering speed are likely not entirely software related. The microprocessor in the iPhone is far less powerful than even a bottom-of-the-line Mac. Like orders-of-magnitude less powerful. Additionally, the iPhone has far less RAM, cache memory, VRAM and a much slower graphics chip.

Bingo! I picked up an iPod Touch and tried it for a couple of months. Raced it with my Macbook Pro on my home wifi in tests and got nowhere near the same performance. I could give the Touch a head start on pulling in a page and then hit the Macbook link and beat it almost every time. I used “new” sites that had not been cached in any way. The Touch frequently seemed like dialup speeds. All this while they were on a 7 Mbit WiFi internet connection.

I think it cannot render anywhere near Macbook speeds and that it has to do with the vastly different hardware. I can’t see where you COULD expect a match on complex websites like I tested it with. Simple websites might be OK but most that I visit are annoyingly complex.

People may be in for a BIG disappointment when their G3 iPhone doesn’t perform much better on complex sites.

There is being bounced down to GPRS, but there also times when it says I have a full-strength HDPSA connection and yet I’m receiving zero data.

Basically, the networks are lagging a LONG way behind what we want.

Simply google “iphone bookmarklet new tab.” Here’s a good site that shows you how…

http://doctyper.com/archives/200707/fixing-a-small-iphone-annoyance/

I think you should consider that your issues with iPhone Safari’s rendering speed are likely not entirely software related…No amount of software optimization is going to make it perform like it does on your Mac.

No argument here. I thought I made it clear that the problem was the EDGE network…and this is indeed a hardware issue that would affect all Internet applications, not just Safari. My suggested solutions were to improve the network speed (which is being done) as well as to improve the mechanisms Safari uses to compensate for slow speeds. The latter mechanisms *are* software related.

P.S. I also understand that, with a 3G or even a Wi-Fi connection, Safari on the iPhone will still not be as fast as Safari running on a Mac. True. But that’s a separate matter from what I covered in the column.

I’m not saying that there aren’t software issues with Safari that might be slowing down rendering. But, if you expect Safari on an iPhone to render at speeds similar to a Mac, you need to readjust your expectations. No amount of software optimization is going to make it perform like it does on your Mac.