As you're working on the MSDN documentation, I'd be very interested in code samples that demonstrate how to use IE Mobile as an embedded control...

Nevermind - just found the "MiniPIE" sample in the WM 5.0 SDK tree....

New leadership and a quick Powerpoint deck of browser extensibility options

Hi, we have been fiddling around with Internet Explorer for a while and we have been experiencing performance related issues. First, lets say that we are using Windows CE 5.0, on a 400MHz Xscale processor (PXA255), with 64Mb RAM. We are trying to show HTML content from our own application. In our application we need to provide the user with a very good responsiveness from the web display and navigation.

Thus, we first tried the ActiveX Internet Explorer control that comes with Win CE 5.0 (MSHTML). We had unexpected display/rendering performance problems that we were not capable to overcome. For example, it takes 1.3 seconds to load an almost-empty 5-frames page (local disk-hosted content). While it takes 300ms to load an almost-empty single-frame  page. We've tried adding more content to the pages, but it does not seems to affect the performance very much, the rendering merely gets slower. The page load speed is by far  under our requirements, which would be around 50ms-75ms for an almost-empty page. Is there an optimized version to come out? It there a way to "down-size" the IE control to speed up the performance? Is there some calls that ought to be performed to speed-up things? We have on hand a simple example reproducing the described behavior. At your request, we can provide that sample for further investigation.

Now, by looking through this blog we found out about HTMLControl (used by formely PIE and HTMLHelp and some other applications) and its underlying WEBView control. We have unsucessfully tried to make it work using the Microsoft Sample and so many other ways. See our post at this address (http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded&p=1&tid=8f72e176-ce0c-4966-a743-e5b7d9ef71b2). If you got any suggestions we are available to do any test in order to get the control to work. We also tried MINIPIE (provided within the Pocket PC SDK), but without success. Note that our platform was modified to include HTMLHelp (PEGHELP) and exclude IE 6 for Windows CE, so that HTMLControl is implicitely included.

We also tried a third-party HTML Renderer (http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/) and we got extremely good results. Load speed was astonishing and rendering very neat. The downfall is the lack of support for asian languages. However, we would prefer using standard MS technologies.

We are also looking at mozilla Rendering engine (as used by the MINIMO project) for our application. We did not yet put a lot of efforts into this port, hoping that we can get clear pointers from you guys…

Thanks a lot

philibert, GSM Products
(pperusse dot nospam at gsmproducts dot ca)

Ok, finally manage to make WEBView control work. Still I would really prefer using IE6 if I can get better performances!

philibert
(pperusse dot nospam at gsmproducts dot ca)

To Philibert Perusse about  "The downfall is the lack of support for asian languages" [in HTMLayout].
HTMLayout does support Asian languages.

I am having browser issues on my CE 5.0 device. I am looking for help on re-installing CE or IE 6, which ever will get me working again. My office has several Treo 700w phones. My phone has had a few applications installed and then removed, but the issue is with PIE. On my phone, some variables are not working. Seems like I can't pass session items. I work with C#, and I made a simple page using the latest .NET 2.0 objects. First I noticed that I couldnt get a DataGrid to load with a Session["Item"]. If I pass a querystring item it would work. So, I thought it was the phone's browser... I then got the device emulator working, and although I couldn't get the square screen device to work, the CE 5.0 device I can get to work. works fine... Session Items pass correctly and everything! Ok, so it must be my phone... If my browser is hosed, how do I go about re-loading PIE? or CE 5.0?

Thanks in advance,

MoWoM

I have looked for the equivalent event handler to onClick for Mobile IE.  Does such a command exist:  like onTap...fire event.

There seems to be some confusion about how is called the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer: Pocket IE (PIE), IE Mobile (IEMO)...

The first post at IE Mobile Team Weblog helps clarify the doubt:

A note on naming: IE Mobile is the browser forme..

Hi I'm also looking for an event handler on Mobile IE. I was planing to use onfocus instead, but it doesn't seem to work.  I placed the event handler on the <a href=""> element though.

I know I must be doing something wrong...

<a href="#"  onfocus="document.link.src = 'urvens.gif';" onblur="document.link.src = 'david.gif';"><img border="0" name="link" src="david.gif"></a>