Filed under: Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Browsers
Try Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on your desktop
This is the second time in the last few weeks that we've seen a software developer preview a mobile browser by releasing a desktop-only demo. But while Mozilla released a relatively light weight desktop version of Fennec, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 demo includes a full Windows Mobile emulator, which makes the installer file weigh in at 200+ MB.
That said, Internet Explorer Mobile 6 is a huge improvement over past versions of Pocket Internet Explorer. Like Safari for the iPhone, you can view full web pages the way they would look in a desktop browser and then zoom in tight for a better reading experience. Web pages did take a fairly long time to load, but it's not clear if that's the browser's fault or the fact that it's connecting to the internet through an ActiveSync connection with my laptop.
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 also features Flash Lite 3.1 and the Javascript v5.7 engine from Internet Explorer 8, which means you can watch Flash content from sites like YouTube and render Javascript-heavy pages like Google Docs.
My only real complaint with Internet Explorer Mobile 6 is that there's still no support for tabbed browsing.
[via Windows Mobile team Blog]
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James said 6:50PM on 11-12-2008
Hrm. When I run a WinMo emulator for app development, I can map a hard drive folder as "Storage Memory" (a mocked-up memory card). I wonder if you can copy the IEXPLORE.EXE (or whatever) out of the image and replace the one on a real WinMo device. I don't have time to try it now, but if someone else wants to....
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Quikboy said 8:25AM on 11-13-2008
Well, at least it's a start. I really wish the IE/Mobile team could have made an IE8 (or IE7 at least) Mobile browser with as much convenient functionality as possible, but oh well. The browser Microsoft created for their new Origami Experience 2.0 is also great for a device with smaller screen, but I guess they didn't want a WinMo version...
Native support for Flash is great as well, compared to another well known mobile browser, and I too wish to tabbed browsing. Maybe they'll have it done right by WinMo 7.
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