In my admittedly sporadic testing over the past few days, I’ve not noticed much better battery life with the 2.1 update than before.   Starting with a full battery, in a few hours of web/email usage under 3G I am down to 50% battery, and am easily able to get it to 20% with more […]
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2.1 Blues: Safari Change & Battery Life Unimproved

 

In my admittedly sporadic testing over the past few days, I’ve not noticed much better battery life with the 2.1 update than before.   Starting with a full battery, in a few hours of web/email usage under 3G I am down to 50% battery, and am easily able to get it to 20% with more usage throughout the day.    I’m not impressed.

 

Adding insult to injury, two web applications that I wrote that feature the HTML "Meta Refresh" tag no longer work in Safari — but they did PRE-2.1. 

<META HTTP-EQUIV=’Refresh’ CONTENT=’1 URL=/ ‘>

 

This tag should directed the browser to go to the page ("/" – the homepage, in this example) in the time specified (1, or 1 second in this example).   This worked under 2.0 but does NOT under 2.1.

 

Anyone else seen anything noteworthy with their 2.1 upgrade?

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