Maxthon browser for Playbook versus iPad Safari browser

Not having access to a laptop, I am using a Playbook.  While the default Playbook browser is less than adequate for many tasks and web sites, the free Maxthon browser performs admirably with many web sites, due to it mimicking an Android browser user agent (among others).  According to What's My User Agent?, the user agent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; zh-cn; HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e Build/GRJ22)Maxthon AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Compare this to the user agent of the default Playbook browser:  

Mozilla/5.0 (PlayBook; U; RIM Tablet OS 2.1.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/536.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.2.1.0 Safari/536.2+
   

Using Google Docs is a better experience than with the default Playbook browser and no Bluetooth keyboard.  Having said that, I am now typing this post using an iPad and the ease of use is noticeably higher.  The iOS copy and paste, text selection and cursor repositioning (magnifying glass), and auto spelling correction features are more intuitive than those of the Maxthon browser (Maxthon doesn't use the default Playbook OS edit features).  I used to think that the iPad is mainly a "consumption" device but it is large enough to do multi-finger touch typing with the virtual keyboard.  Combined with the excellent edit functionality, it is an worthy laptop alternative when you have a table and case/stand.

Hmmm, just noticed some weirdness with attempting to apply some labels to this post, but I think it was because I was zoomed in.

So what makes a good web browser?  Besides web pages rendering as intended by the page author, if you're going to do anything where you have to type some characters (this may include typing a URL or search term) and if you don't have a hardware keyboard, you should have good text editing capability.  That is, auto spelling correction and cursor repositioning, and for productivity:  copy-and-paste and text selection features.

[Updated August 2, 2013]

CBC Spark: Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

• Listen
• Need to realize that media out of context can be misinterpreted by others.  Need to have a conversation with those upset with us, rather than just saying they are "wrong"
• We get less international news than before from broadcasts (newspaper, newscast, etc.).  Broadcasts are giving us what we want (local news) rather than what we need.  We also curate for news that we already have an understanding of.  International news is important because we live in a globalized world.   
• Broadly, news/information comes from three channels:
• professionally curated (newspaper, newscast, etc.)
• our own searches
• social networking (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• Despite being able to look at any web site around the world, we are still very narrow-minded
• One problem is homophily:  Our friends typically have the same view and get similar news as we do 
• Language restrictions:  Most of us have no access to the part of Web created by hundreds of millions of Chinese people due to language issues
• Bridge figures - those that know two cultures equally well and can explain one culture to those of the other culture
• Difficult to find information via serendipity because Web is programmed to provide links to things we will like with great certainty (that is, similar to things we liked before).  This is caused by the risk-adverse nature of  the Web driven by advertising