Windows Phone Mango Internet Explorer Preview | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 19 июня 2011, 12:42

The big thing about Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7.5 is that it is now on par with the full desktop version of Internet Explorer 9. That means full GPU hardware acceleration and HTML 5 support. In terms of actual tests, running HTML 5 websites on this normal old Samsung Focus blows away the browsers on the iPhone and Android. You may have seen the comparison demos before and thought they were using a prototype Windows Phone with better GPU hardware acceleration or something that would speed it up... no, this is a two year old processor, running HTML 5 much faster than brand new stuff. Heck, it's probably faster than Mozilla Firefox 3.6 on your desktop. HTML5 videos play without issue here on IE9 where they won't play at all on other platforms, and zooming/panning is as smooth and fast as ever. I am very impressed! If you'd like to try some HTML 5 tests for yourself, go to ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/mob...

A few other new things that have changed in IE are the address bar and pop-up menu. The address bar is at the bottom now and all other functions are in the pop-up menu. It's better like this since the address bar is easier to reach and there's more screen area for looking at web pages. However, it does now take two taps to get to things like tabs and favorites. The Share command has been updated in IE as well. Now there's a "Social Networks" option in the Share menu along with the normal messaging and email options. Choosing it will allow you to post a link to Windows Live, Facebook, LinkedIn and presumably others like Twitter when that support is finalized.

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