Redeployed

websites
on Skyfire Browser
By Nicholas Cox
Skyfire: about
The video and social browser for the networking
generation
The fastest browser
Skyfire: 7.678 seconds
Default browser: 17.636 seconds
Opera Mini: 13.133 seconds
(Techrepublic, 2010)

Based on the Android

Supports Flash
What I did
Redeployed a website (HTML5) to use on Skyfire
Asked participants to use the website on Skyfire
Used video to analyse
Followed by a survey
Website
Redeployed a basic
‘Costa’ website
Built website using
HTML5 CSS3
Used Flash video within
website
Video: observing
Navigation was slow in places
User didn’t understand buttons/navigation
Toolbar never always opened when selected
Not as fast as made out to be
Video feature didn’t always respond
Survey: Q1
What current device are you using to access the internet?
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What current browser do you use to access the internet on your device?
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Does the layout of Skyfire provide greater speed on navigating over your
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Survey: Q4
Skyfire shares browsing information to pass onto advertisers. Will this stop
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Survey: Q5
Skyfire allows for quicker viewing speed of video content, but this reduces
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Would you choose to use Skyfire over your current hand-held devices own
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Survey: Q7
Overall, Do you think Skyfire quicker at viewing websites over your current
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(optional) Do you have any comments on why you like or dislike Skyfire
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‘The navigation was confusing’

‘Share feature was slow’
‘Even on Wi-Fi the video quality wasn’t worth
watching’.
‘didn’t find social networking features useful’.
summary

• Navigation was a big problem

• Website browsing speed was successful with
Skyfire
• Video quality was preferred over speed