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IE web page help..Blackjack
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Posted by: Rockinfigs

ok how come using blackjacks IE when i goto some sites it doesnt show the full site for ex....raptorforum.com?? i went to tmobile yesterday and tried the dash and i was able to get the full website usin dash's IE whats goin on??

Posted by: boone

Wirelessly posted (SAMSUNG-SGH-I607/I607FG1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; Smartphone; 320x240) UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

I went to the site you posted and it displayed just fine. I do know that some sites such as ign.com don't display properly. If I had to guess, I'd say they are not configured to display properly on WAP browsers.

Posted by: Rockinfigs

hmm weird....when i access it its modified and doesnt show all the pics and other stuff..but when i use the tmobile dash i get the actual website like u r acessin it from a home pc

Posted by: sdeetz

IE on Windows mobile (both smartphone and Pocket PC versions) have a couple of set up options. Each carrier selects which setup to use. One setup pulls a full website, another automatically looks to see if there is a WAP or mobile version, and if so display that one instead.

You'll notice this if you go to sites like ESPN for example. On one phone you may get a WAP version with almost no graphics and just links to scores, stories, etc. This is the one most regular cell phones use because it is faster to load these pages on the slower internet speeds.

On most smartphones you may get a mobile version of ESPN with some pictures, but certainly a scaled down version of the full site designed specifically for mobile phones.

The third page is the fulll website. However, when you go to the full website of ESPN on a smartphone, it doesn't display properly. Even scrolling left to right. If you arrow down there are long stretches of nothing. You have to scroll for 3 or 4 pages between the links to other ESPN sub-pages. That's why most carriers select the default for IE as the mobile sites first.

I'm surprised that the Dash has it setup for the full sites as the default since it lacks 3G speeds. Almost every device limited to Edge uses the mobile default.

The Blackjack has 3G, but Cingular selected the mobile website default because of the issue with some full websites not displaying correctly on a mobile device. They felt that correctly displaying a mobile version was better than incorrectly displaying the full version. (Obviously websites that do not offer a mobile version will still display the full version, but more and more websites offer both)

That being said, there is a registry hack to override the pre-installed settings. You can go through a registry editor (such as regedit) or you can select the simplified way by using smarttweaker or tweaks2k2. They both have a pre-defined selection to override the IE display settings to allow the full webpage by dafault. Just be aware that some full version websites don't look good in mobile IE.

The last option is use a 3rd party browser instead. Opera offers one more WM5 smartphones that displays full webpages a little better, but it is a java app rather than a full application. So it's not the best interface, but it works and looks good.

There are some others I have heard about in development, but I have not seen them in action yet.

Posted by: Rockinfigs

wow thats a good explanation..thk u very much..now i get it...i guess ill just have to deal with it thks again