Internet Explorer Mobile Application Development

4/8/2010

Internet Explorer Mobile is a full-featured Internet browser that is optimized for devices with small, vertically oriented displays and for cached or customized content. HTML functionality for the mobile Internet browser includes support for tables, forms, and frames. A fit-to-screen option dynamically resizes Web pages to maximize viewing on handheld devices without requiring a user to scroll across a page. A Zoom menu option allows for a user to view text on the screen in different sizes.

Note

If a form submission results in a file download and it is interrupted, the download will not resume if the form post data is greater than 2048 bytes.

Automatic state detection determines whether the device is connected to the Internet. If the device is not connected to the Internet, automatic state detection diverts the browser to a cached version of the Web page. On Windows Mobile devices that include Microsoft ActiveSync, users can update their cached Web pages automatically by designating a Web page that is displayed on their desktop computer as a Mobile Favorite. Then, when they synchronize their devices to their desktop computer, current versions of those pages are downloaded to the mobile Internet browser.

In This Section

• International Language Functionalities
  Describes the international language settings that are available for the mobile Internet browser

• Browser Registry Settings
  Describes some registry settings that affect the use of the mobile Internet browser

• Internet Explorer Mobile Characteristics
  Describes the features of the mobile Internet browser for Windows Mobile devices

• Creating HTML Control
  Provides general information about the HTML control and a code example that uses the control

• Designing Web Sites for Windows Mobile Devices
  Provides information about the design of Web sites for display on Windows Mobile devices

• Identifying Internet Explorer Mobile to a Web Server
  Provides information about how you can help an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server identify the Internet Explorer Mobile browser

Related Sections

• Internet Explorer Mobile
  Provides links to topics that contain information about Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile devices

• Internet Explorer Mobile Security
  Provides information about security with Internet Explorer Mobile and describes various best practices for security

• Internet Explorer Mobile Reference
  Provides descriptions of the various programming elements in Internet Explorer Mobile