Thanks for letting us know! Seems Pete is a bit busy. My copy of MultiIE says on the About page just below my email address, 'Official MultiIE Test Team Member', but he never even asked me to test this version, never mind letting me know it's released. sigh. forgotten.
Anyway, I just grabbed the CAB and installed it to my X5/PPC2002, and it seems indeed to add a few nice touches. The new 'page loaded' sound is a bit too cute, so I've reverted to my old hwandsw.wav, just a little pop sound. Probably the most significant new feature is support for on-the-fly orientation switching for WM2003SE devices. Too bad, I'll have to wait for my next device to get that. Nydidot, the other option for this, never worked well for me at all.
So what remains in terms of tasty bits for the users of older devices? Modification ot behavior around link-taps. There is an added option to change this, and I'm so far really liking the option to have a simple tap on a link open that page in a new back window. In forums especially this will save me a lot of waiting time where I used to use the tap&hold menu. Brings MultiIE into line with how ftxPBrowser's link-tapping works, only better.
Unfortunately, saved pages still have a bug. I first asked Pete to look into this bug almost 2 years ago, and it seems either he can't fix it or can't reproduce the problem to understand it. PHP pages and a few other types save as garbage code, like this Brighthand page I just tried to save - your own announcement just like this one actually:
That's supposed to be part of a normal forum page. Instead, as happens with PocketPCThoughts pages and a bunch of others, I get reams of this junk. Sure, a lot of normal HTML pages save just fine. Seems MultiIE just can't deal with some kinds of web authoring. This makes the Save Web Page As... menu option rather limited in utility. Having to double-check saved pages all the time is a big waste of time, so for the most part I'll just select all the text and copy it into a TXT file. At least that way the actual text is readable later, if somewhat stripped-down with no formatting nor images.
I like MultiIE. Used it since it was released, and used the precursor, TapRight, long before that. I've given Pete a lot of feedback and bug reporting. It'd be nice if one day, before a new version of PIE or a new browser make it irrelevant, that all the problems could be worked out. Device lockups, for instance, have prevailed on every device I've had MultiIE installed to. If I swap windows just a little too quickly, not waiting a second or two between taps on the 'e' icons or the scrollbars, MultiIE chokes and my Dell, iPAQ, even my old Casio EG-800 all lock up solid, forcing a soft reset. Happens with just two pages open and nothing else running, so this is an obvious MultiIE bug. And it holds true in this version, as my first reply to this thread was almost done when I lost it all in switching back from my FTP client, after uploading that screenshot. It's a royal pain.
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