IE for Windows Phone Team Weblog

I wanted to take a moment to thank all the readers of this blog over the last year for their interest in IE on Windows Phone, and let all of you know that we’re packing up the truck and moving to a new site. Now that Windows Phone has been in the market...

By now, you’ve probably heard today’s announcement at this year’s Mobile World Congress that we are bringing IE9 to Windows Phone later this year. If not, you can read and learn more about the announcement here and here . Having the same core browsing...

As web browsing on mobile devices continues to grow, having sites that are designed to be used on phone and that match the look and feel of other applications on the device becomes more important every day.  In this post I would like to expand on...

There have been several posts on how to style sites for mobile devices.  These approaches all use CSS3 Media Queries.  As many of the articles point out, not all mobile browsers support this feature.  The Windows Phone 7  browser's...

One of the main challenges involved with mobile Web development is getting content to lay out correctly on screens of varying sizes. Over the years, browser vendors have invented a variety of ways to allow developers to control how browsers lay out content...

Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7 supports a variety of font faces (13) that you can use in your Web pages, ranging from the usual suspects like Arial to fonts like Segoe WP, which Windows Phone uses itself for various User Interface text. The full...

Yesterday, we posted a blog entry that detailed some upcoming JavaScript and CSS support enhancements that we are planning on making to the IE Mobile browser for Windows Phone 7. One of these changes, support for -webkit-text-size-adjust, stirred up a...

For IE Mobile in Windows Phone 7, we've made a couple of JavaScript and CSS enhancements that you can try out today in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator . The new scripting functions are: getElementsByClassName(name): given the class specified by...

UPDATE 11/2/2010: You don't need to do this anymore, as the Windows Phone Developer Tools now install a link in the Start menu that launches the Emulator directly. If you are developing a mobile Web app and want to test it out in the Windows Phone...

Now that MIX is well behind us and the crowds have all returned home, we hope that many of you are busily working away on your Rich Mobile Web applications and learning all about Windows Phone 7 development. To aid in this effort, I've pulled together...

Yesterday, the IE team introduced their User Agent string for IE9 . We felt that it was only right that we do the same thing. Thus, without further ado, introducing the Windows Phone Internet Explorer UA String: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows...

Hello everyone! I’d like to start off by introducing myself – I’m Joe Marini, and I’m a Principal PM here on the Windows Phone team. Among the things I’m responsible for is driving our mobile Web developer strategy and engagement, and that includes reaching...