The first browser that allows my X5 to do landscape will get my vote...and my money...
It's highly unlikely that any of them will natively support landscape - even when the ones that have their own rendering engine (and don't rely on the PIE engine) could.
BTW, in addition to Nyditot, did you give a try to Thunderhawk? It's landscape by default.
Upon answering a question over at <em>microsoft.public.pocketpc</em>, I've collected the links to my latest reviews of the Web Browsers for the Pocket PC. As a collection like this can be very handy for all Pocket PC users, I publish it here too:
MultiIE 3.1 d 59 (no new version released since the " Roundup of Web Browsers "; see review in there) PIEPlus 1.31
Spb Pocket Plus (will publish a review of the latest, 3.1 version soon; the review of 3.0.4 can be found here) ftxPBrowser 0.1e Webby 2.0
I've posted a detailed review/roundup/ compliance report / tip collection of current, midlet-capable Java environments on the Pocket PC (including some remarks on the midlet-compliance of the Netfront 3.2 Web browser). It's a must for anyone wanting to run midlets (for example, Opera Mini or Mobile Gmaps) on his or her Pocket PC.
Both are pretty good but, in general, nowehere as good as Opera 8.5b2. Please read my articles linked above so that you can get a far more sophisticated picture of all this.
ANN: Windows Mobile 5 and Internet Explorer Mobile Identification in the Registry - a lot of new info & tips
In my previous article on how Pocket Internet Explorer (of which the new
name is Internet Explorer Mobile (IEM for short) under Windows Mobile 5
(WM5)) computes the request headers (of which you can also seen some
examples of in this article - with alternative browsers too), I've
elaborated on this under pre-WM5 operating systems.
In this article, I do the same - now with WM5. The affected registry keys
are slightly modified here (a 5.0 has been added in the name) - and also a
new Templates subkey has been added.
Read more at the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Expert Blog:
Opera 8.5 B2 for WM2003SE is the 2nd best browser in my opinion. If they fix the text build up problem on large pages, it will beat out netfront, and I shall buy it. Be even nicer if they used favorites, but I can deal with that.
hopefully by the time i'm finished i'll be able to buy nf3.3 or opera
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Menneisyys,
I used Netfront 3.2 with my previous X50 WM2003 and it worked fine.
Now I have an X51V with WM2005. Last night I installed Netfront 3.2 and it doesn't load up any pages (I checked the parameters and apparently the setup is identical to the one I had with my X50).
Is the 3.2 version WM2005 compatible?
And does the 3.3 version work with Hebrew?
Thank you.
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