Posts tagged ‘IEM’

Internet Explorer Mobile can not access 127.0.0.1 / localhost

Recently I stumbled over this very anoying feature of the Microsoft Internet Explorer Mobile (IEM). IEM is NOT able to open local webserver pages! Neither within WM5 nor WM6.1. You can test this using the stand-alone Windows Mobile emulator:

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What is an AKU?

Only a short post about AKUs.

As I wrote about Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1.4 it would be of interest, when this is part of the OS image on your device. With ‘when’ I mean the AKU number, when IEM is part of the OS image.

Adaption Kit Updates are described here.

A list of AKU s is posted here and here

AJAX and Windows Mobile 6

Some time ago MS announced an extended Mobile Internet Explorer (sorry, it has to be called Internet Explorer Mobile now, nor Pocket Internet Explorer. Thanks to all these new terms for the same thing to MS. PIE, MIE, IEM is all the same) with the release of Windows Mobile 6.1.4: Internet Explorer Mobile.

I did a short test and will still recommend Access Netfront for professional use. IEM runs slow and I can not see the ((un-)documented) enhancements for web programmers.

Josef