So I’ve been doing some work off-and-on on a mobile version of the site I use to browse/play music on my home network. I’ve wanted a mobile-optimized version of the site for some time, and a recent development with my SHOUTcast streaming client of choice has made this project more of a necessity than a curiosity.

Critical to the operation of the site is the ability to touch-scroll various regions in the page. That, and the ability of the browser to support HTML5 Audio in the MP3 format. And so far, I’ve only found Opera Mobile to be worthy of solving the HTML5 Audio part of the equation while also remaining my mobile browser of choice.

However, I was having no luck with the touch-scrolling part of the equation. Many mobile browsers seem to have a problem handling straight-up overflow:scroll, and even the iScroll Javascript library wasn’t solving my particular flavour of problem. And what was working was working at a horrible pace.

Then I happened to notice that a manual update for Opera Mobile was sitting in my Android Market queue. Among reported changes was an update to the core (or engine) that the Android version of the browser was using. And wouldn’t you know it – upgrading to this version solved all of my touch-scroll issues, and performance is about as snappy as it is on the desktop Opera Mobile emulator.

So colour me happy. Now that the site is functional, I can work on prettying it up and adding gee-whiz features 🙂