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7 HN users recommended this in 2011, in 7 comments.
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7 HN users recommended this in 2011, in 7 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
The product listing is up: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
Here are the specs on Amazon's site:
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi...
"Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With each page request, Silk dynamically determines a division of labor between the mobile hardware and Amazon EC2 (i.e. which browser sub-components run where) that takes into consideration factors like network conditions, page complexity and the location of any cached content." (from http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi...)
This sounds conceptually similar to how Opera delivers pages with one of its mobile browsers, which is to say that Javascript and rich web apps will be severely crippled. Is it indeed possible for the server and client to collaboratively decide what parts of my code to run client-side and which ones proxy-side and still have anything approximating good performance/identical functionality?
Interesting. Found some more details here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2#silk
"Computing Power in the Cloud
EC2 servers have massive computational power. On EC2, available CPU, storage, and available memory can be orders of magnitudes larger than on mobile devices. Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website simultaneously, and delivers them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream. Transferring computing-intensive tasks to EC2 helps to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2#silk
What does this mean? "Transferring computing-intensive tasks to EC2 helps to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life". Are we offloading javascripting processing to the cloud and returning the results?
If so it will be different than Opera Mini.
In the product page http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2 the word Android appeared once only. Interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
Wow, no mention of android in tech specs???