| Service: | WebWarper | Google Mobile | Skweezer | MobileLeap |
| Direct access (by directly entering the URL in the URL of the service)? | + http://webwarper.net/ww/~av/ADDRESS (both with and without http:// ); for example, here | - ( http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=ADDRESS requires a URL encoded URL like here (example screenshot) | + like here | + like here |
| GZIP-compressed HTML? | + | + | + | + |
| What does it do to HTML tables? | + kept. The page layout, in most cases, is preserved, which is very good news for all WM2003SE+ users (or anyone with a browser that has a One Column mode). IN cases, however, it can be messed up like here. This problem affects only few Web pages. | - (Converted into plain HTML) | - (Converted into plain HTML) | - (Converted into plain HTML) |
| Does it split Web pages to make navigation easier / keep restricted (like that of the Pocket PC 2002 operating system) Web browsers crashing at loading 100 kbyte+ HTML pages? | - | + (6 pages with the example Winter War article) | + | - |
| Does it convert (downsample / resize) images? | - | +, downsamples (not configurable) | - | +, downsamples & resized (both can be fine-tuned and parameterized) with links. (Another settings screenshot here) |
| Anonymous? tested via both a local server and this | + | - (X-Forwarded-For passed) | - (X-Forwarded-For and Client-IP passed) | - (X-Forwarded-For passed) |
| Verdict | Particularly recommended if you need
1. anonymity
2. the original layout of pages
3. GZIP compression.
While it still downloads a JavaScript file (HTTP request response), now, it is returned by the web server compressed (unlike a year ago) and seems to be correctly retrieved from the local cache and not reloaded, not even after browser restarts | Highly recommended | Recommended | Recommended, albeit now some of the alternates have become much better than a year ago – that is, not highly recommended any more |
