Trident 5. It only seems fitting that we test everything and see whether IE 9 on WP7. I came away very impressed with how things turned out. The entire browser application is redesigned.
The URL bar has been relocated from the top to the very bottom of the phone, and the three icons that previously were there for favorites, tabs, and the like have been removed.
You can see these differences in the first set of screenshots at the top of the page. It's an even more minimalist layout that arguably fits well with the Metro UI "less is more" philosophy.
The result is that landscape viewing is now completely supported for more than just viewing pages - previously the URL bar and bottom navigation would disappear in landscape. This is a definite improvement. Another notable improvement is that text no longer appears extremely jaggy when zooming in quickly. Previously, we noted that this was an aberration resulting from how pages were rendered into a texture, it appears this behavior has been dramatically improved for the better, and as a result text has much more smoothing and quickly changes to proper size when zoomed in on.
This is now dramatically improved as well. It's difficult to illustrate, so I'd encourage you to check out the video further down on this page. I also always got the impression that WP7 had a very limited subset of fonts supported, only one or two for each primary style class, and as a result pages often rendered faithfully but with horribly wrong fonts.
I was loading live sites on both emulators which required an uninstall and install , so there are some subtle differences in content, but the major things to pay attention to are layout, font, and the like. Unsurprisingly, you can't opt for Google, though. Current page: Internet Explorer 9 browser and real Office. She's used every version of Windows and Office released, and every smartphone too, but she's still looking for the perfect tablet.
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