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A claim for which I would love to see data, anyway. I am in southern Taiwan, but usually see IE on the desktop and iOS/Android default browsers on cellphones. (

A claim for which I would love to see data, anyway. I am in southern Taiwan, but usually see IE on the desktop and iOS/Android default browsers on cellphones. (Or just the respective Facebook app.) Not sure if this site is super legit, but it seems to second my impression: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-TW-monthly-201008-201108 http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-TW-monthly-201008-... Is it because the user agent is often faked? (Is it on by default?) Or is it that many people use Opera, but they only use it once a month each? From watching locals use the iPad/iPhone, there is nothing wrong with Mobile Safari for Chinese either. It's just that many websites use Flash mouseover crap for navigation, or WMV movies or even ActiveX. But Opera wouldn't help there.

natch 15y ago
When iPad first shipped with iOS 3.2, there was no support for traditional Chinese input. So anyone wanting to log in with a Chinese name, or type some Chinese into a form, would have been out of luck on an iPad unless they had some kind of add-on solution. Just a guess, but maybe Opera came with some kind of built-in Chinese input that compensated for this shortcoming?
- gurkendoktor 15y ago
  But Opera Mini for the iPad came out even later than iOS 4.2 (if I did my googling correctly). So I hope that wasn't the reason, people entering TC characters on a low-resolution device in a scaled-up iPhone Opera Mini is a terrible image :)