Opera Mini coming to your mobile phone

Opera Software just released Opera Mini, a Small-Screen-Rendering Browser for Mobile Phones. The technology behind it is actually pretty cool. Opera Mini takes your website request, downloads the page, and calculates, on it's server, a small-screen version of the page. This small-screen rendering is then submitted to your mobile phone. This seems, apart from potential safety & data security precautions, to be a really nice solution to the problem of low processing speeds on mobile devices. The actual calculation of the small-screen version takes up quite some computing time, and thus "outsourcing" it really makes sense.
Another benefit of this is that the actual application itself is only 99kb big. So even older handies which don't feature 30mb memory-cards can use it without any problems.

I tested the browser yesterday on my Sony K750i phone with mixed results. Pages which use standard-non-block elements and later on set them to block-level using css are rendered incorrectly, as the browser interprets those elements as non-blocklevel; thus your vertical navigation, if build out of A elements, will crumble down to a sentence of links. Same goes for other elements.
I'm not sure if this will be fixed or if this is "a feature", so I for one took the mental note to use block-level elements where I want block-level and inline where I want inline.

However, apart from this problem the browser presented really good results. Pages loaded quick, everything was readable, most of the pages still had a "usable" structure, and the actual process of reading pages on a mobile phone display felt "good", which was new to me, I'd never felt good when browsing the web with my mobile phone. Kudos to Opera for releasing it, and maybe a future enhancement on the CSS-Part could make it even better.