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[msmobiles.com_robot]

Previously we mentioned, that Iris Browser is not working in HTC Touch Diamond because it is hanging and simply it is unworkable. However we have tried it with another Windows Mobile phone with high-resolution (VGA)...

Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/7795.html

[kanzlr]

ok, admit it: what are you smoking?

I tried every version of the iris browser available lately. While Beta II is an improvement, you can not compare it to the iPhone browser, let a lone say it is just as good.

it doesn't render many sites well that work great on the iphone, it is slower and crashes often times with complicated sites. wuhuw, msmobiles works! but try it with complex multi layered sites...

honestly, netfront 3.5 CV is MUCH better. It is way faster, renders more sites correctly, reformats just as nice and scrolls nicely, too.

and now some info for you:
If you get the iPhone version of a site or not solely depends on the user Agent you use.

to change the user Agent on Netfront 3.5, go to MENU -> TOOLS-> BROWSER SETTINGS -> MENU -> NETWORK

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows CE; U; Mobile; iPhone; PPC; en) AppleWebKit/522+(KHTML, like Gecko) WM5 Iris/1.0.15 Safari/419.3


i have chosen an empty user agent set (you can have multiple in netfront) and I just set it to the same value you show IRIS uses:




you see, it works for gmail:


and for tuaw (altough tuaw also displays it in that format without changing the user agent):


fictionwise looks nice, too, regardless of the agent:




and for completeness sake, the msmobiles check.php:



so, whats special about IRIS?
netfront is the better browser, and for keyboard equipped devices like my i780, it is even better than opera, because i can use the keyboard for shortcuts and menus.

edit: you can also change the user agent for PIE in the registry, but i don't know if IE is capable of showing the iphone sites correctly, and i don't care

[kanzlr]

a little addition:


gmail works nicely, http://iphone.facebook.com/ also works, but it expects a screen 480 in with, so i have to scroll a bit on my i780, or set the netfront mode to "just-fit rendering" unter the VIEW menu (works perfect). same for http://iphone.ebay.com/
just make sure you use the just-fit rendering setting, so it doesnt expect a 480 wide display

basically, if you want to use iPhone website with windows mobile, use netfront 3.5 concept version, set the user agent to the same IRIS uses and set the rendering mode to "just-fit", so it works as it would on the iphone.

easy, ey?

[sendbhanu]

IRIS is not the the only webkit based browser.
There are two more that I know of , SKYFIRE and OPERA.
These are much better than IRIS

[kanzlr]

[Menneisyys]

Just published a full roundup of WinMo Web browsers and their comparison to Safari. Please see http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/full-roundup-browsing-web-windows-mobile-just-iphone-incl-iem6-review