Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke
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Then again, Opera Mini is itself rather strange: it actually makes all requests through Opera's own proxy servers. These then retrieve the content and apply all kinds of wonderful tricks, analysing the HTML and compressing the images, so as to finally serve up something that is equivalent to the original page, but much smaller (== quicker), optimised for your device, and definitely not the same as the original. In fact, it's an image of the page rather than HTML.
This strategy usually works well. I know that forms are one of the trickiest things they have to deal with though. It could be something to do with it trying to get the additional info about the page so it can emulate the form; I seem to remember reading something in one of their developer's blogs about the way it has to transition from displaying an image of the page to emulating the form it never sent when the user starts to interact with the form, and maybe a slow connection is interfering with that.
Next time I see any of the Opera mob I'll ask them (although unfortunately the ones I know aren't actually browser developers, they're web standards evangelists).
EDIT: and I've just realised that you aren't using Opera Mini anymore, you're on the Symbian browser. I should read things properly before I reply
If I can't find anything in his published tests I'll ping ppk and see if he's come across this kind of behaviour; I'm not sure it's in his remit from Vodafone, but he might have some ideas.
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