It looks like Microsoft has announced a Valentine’s gift for Windows Phone 7 fans which should make it easier for them to view the web without envying their iOS friends.
As far as iOS rivals go however, Microsoft had a few words regarding the browsers of their competitors.
As a result, when you compare different browsers side by side using official W3C standards tests, for example here, you can expect very similar results for IE9 on Windows Phone and the Windows desktop. […]
Our approach to sharing code involves using the same engine and the same highly-rated SmartScreen services. Using different engines—even subtly different engines—results in making developers do a lot more work and re-work to accommodate the differences. Articles like The WebKit Lie and the Future of Web Standards and iPad is the new IE6 reflect the problems in fragmented nightly builds and forks. (Official IE Blog)
Although it’s good to see Microsoft finally release a decent browser upon Windows Phone 7, they may want to hold off on attacking the iPad until the company can come out with a superior browsing experience (as IE on Windows Phone 7 is not exactly that great).
Later on in their post Microsoft did announce support for HTML5 which should make it easier to use mobile sites on the go (like Weebly and Tumblr) without having to fire up the notebook.
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Originally posted on February 14, 2011 @ 3:29 pm