How does Small-Screen Rendering work?
As an example, most news sites have a center column where the main article text is located. This column is usually 468 pixels wide, due to the standard ad-banner sizes, and the text is set to fill this width. This means that to read an article on a handheld, users would have to scroll back and forth for every line of text. With SSR, the page is reformatted to align the content in an accommodating order consistent with the vertical scrolling experience users are familiar with from their desktop. All the content and functionality remain available, it is only the layout of the page that is changed. The SSR feature is also a working function in Opera’s desktop browser. By commanding this feature, users will see how a Web site will look when accessed by a mobile device. This option is meant to help developers build pages that are also user friendly on a handheld.
