ANN: Everything you need to know about the scrolling behavior of the two new Internet Explorer plug-ins MultiIE 4 and PIEPlus 2.x

I do most of my Web browsing on my Pocket PC while not at work. It's just
great to be able to browse the Web on my HTC Wizard while, for example,
doing the usual 2-hour-long daily walks with my wife in the nearby
mountains. (Yeah, being married to someone that has been the third and
fourth in entire Finland's orienteering championship in her age group has
some implications, now-you-have-to-come-with-me-to-walk-wise ) Then,
one-handed operation of Web browsers and mailer apps is of extreme
importance. This is why I'm always searching the most optimal Web browser
solutions that allow for this.

One-hand operation makes it necessary to use either the hardware D-pad or
the jog dial to operate (of course, they also support other hardware
buttons, but they, in general, are harder / less intuitive to operate than
the D-pad or the jog dial). Note that your PDA doesn't necessarily need a
real jog dial for the latter to work - there are very nice hacks (most
importantly, SmartSKey) that let volume sliders to be used as jog dials for
even easier scrolling.

Fortunately, advanced Internet Explorer plug-ins like the latest MultiIE and
PIEPlus incarnations greatly support one-handed operations. (Please read
this and this for a review of the latest versions of both plug-ins,
respectively.) However, there are problems with both plug-ins, particularly
when it comes to WM5 and its entirely different default scrolling behavior
(see this for more info on, including modifying it). Unfortunately, while
these applications support pre-WM5 operating systems just great, hardware
D-pad and/or jog dial-based page scrolling-wise, their WM5 support is not
the best.



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more at:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1077&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.



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