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Modifying the AJAX application for IE on Windows Mobile 2003 turned out to be a major chore. I'm not seeing the support for http requests that were promised in the MSDN blog. I'd probably get it one day if I kept at it ... oddly enough, there's even a major problem detecting the browser version ... which is critical. Microsoft continued labeling IE versions 4 and up as version 4. ... You don't see that as a normal user -- I mean when scripts are used in a web page to automatically detect the browser version.
This is really a strange world. I tried installing the Opera browser for Windows Mobile 2003 ... automatic version detection told me it was also Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 4.
OK ... so, I looked at Mozilla's browser for Pocket PC and it said it works for Windows Mobile versions 4.2 and 5. Well, I'm still new to this particular world ... so at first I just moved on. I have Windows Mobile 2003. Then it occurred to me that I'd never heard of Windows Mobile 4. I checked my Pocket PC and it says I have Windows Mobile 2003, version 4.2 ....
OK, so rightly or wrongly I tried it and it worked. My AJAX application also worked without modification.
So I'm running real standard AJAX on the X30 ... will miracles never cease? It is so far limited to Mozilla for Pocket PC; also known as Minimo. (Sometimes called Firefox for Pocket PC. Firefox is built from Mozilla.)
Bad news is it's rumored that Minimo is no longer being supported. But I'm not sure I care so much; at least so far as this is concerned. By the time this app reaches the market, the X30 could be obsolete ... partially or completely because Microsoft isn't upgrading the software for the device.
But for the moment, I can use the X30 and Minimo for further testing and demonstrations. That's all I needed at this point anyway.
Last edited by rogerfgay; 03-21-2007 at 07:56 AM.
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