Database Users

NetFront v3.3 (Technical Preview version)

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1. Introduction
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The microbrowser NetFront v3.3 for Pocket PC was developed based
on standard Internet protocols and supports the latest
standard markup languages: HTML (HyperText Markup Language),
XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language), and WAP2.0 (WML1.3).
It also can display pages to which CSS (Cascading Style Sheet),
ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM (Document Object Model), or DHTML (Dynamic HTML)
has been applied, and provides powerful features similar to a PC browser.
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2. Main Function Specifications
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The following are the main functions of NetFront v3.3 for Pocket PC:
* HTML 4.01
* XHTML 1.1
* cHTML (Compact HTML)
* XHTML Basic (XHTML subset: W3C Recommendation)
* WML1.3
* CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) 1, 2 (partial)
* ECMAScript 3rd Edition (JavaScript 1.5 equivalent)
* DOM (Document Object Model) 1, 2 (partial)
* Image format: GIF, Animation GIF, PNG, JPEG, MNG-LC, BMP
* HTTP/1.1
* SSL (Secure Socket Layer) 2.0/3.0, TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0
* Multi-windows (function to display up to 5 tabbed windows by switching them)
* Cookie
* Bookmark, Page Memo
* Auto-Cruise
* Helper (start external applications)
* Internet search engine
* Smart-Fit Rendering
* Browsing mode (Full Browsing, Text Browsing, Simple Browsing, Rapid-Render)
* Certificate Manager
* Smart Frame Operation
* RSS, Atom Feed
* NetFront SMIL Player
* NetFront SVG Viewer
* Web data/Password Manager
* Enable/Disable pop-up function
* Rendering on a virtual-size screen (Virtual Canvas)
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3. System Requirements
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* CPU : PXA2xx (XScale)/PXA2xx compatible CPU
* OS : Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PC (English version)
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC
(English version)
* Memory for data storage: Approx. 4.0MB
* Memory for program execution: Approx. 5.0MB or more
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4.Verified Devices
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HP iPAQ Pocket PC h2210
HP iPAQ Pocket PC hx2410
HP iPAQ Pocket PC hx4700
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5. Installation
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* Execute NF33PPC3ARENR103TP.exe on a PC to start the installation.
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6. Uninstallation
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* On a PC,
1. Open "Add and Remove Programs" in Control Panel.
2. Select NetFront v3.3 for Pocket PC (PPC3ARENR103TP) and press
the Change and Remove button.
* On a Pocket PC,
1. Select "Start" -> "Settings".
2. Open "Remove Programs" on the "System" tab.
3. Select "ACCESS NetFront33" and tap the Remove button.
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7. Changes from NetFront v3.2 for Pocket PC
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(1) VGA LCD support
* For Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC,
display in VGA LCD is supported.
(2) Improved operatability
* You can now copy and paste into a password box
* You can now copy and paste into a text box
* Pressing the Enter key after entering characters in
the Search tool bar starts searching
* Cache setting has been changed
(3) Smart Frame Operation
* Enables you to operate pages with frames on the small
screen of a Pocket PC. With Smart-Fit Rendering, you can view
framed pages smoothly.
(4) RSS (RDF Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication), Atom Feed support
* Since RSS and Atom Feed, file formats for content distribution
using XML are supported, you can view update information for blogs or news sites.
(5) NetFront SMIL Player
* Conforms to 3GPP SMIL and W3C's SMIL Basic.
You can play multimedia contents that are composed by freely combining
various file formats, such as text, image, sound, movie, and animation.
(6) NetFront SVG Viewer
* Conforms to W3C's SVG Tiny1.1.
You can optimize SVG content for various terminal screen sizes, or
zoom the content in or out on a single screen.
(7) Enable/Disable pop-up function
* Avoids opening pop-up windows such as advertisements, which you do not
intend to receive.
(8) Other features
* Enhanced CSS support
CSS support such as changing the color of text boxes, etc. with CSS
has been enhanced.
* Web data/Password Manager
Centralizes and manages the username/password information
entered by a user.
* Page translation
Translation for the following language can be performed.
- From Japanese to English
* Rendering on a virtual-size screen (Virtual Canvas)
You can render data not only at the actual size of the screen,
but also at a virtual screen size that you set.
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8. Verified External Applications
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* Microsoft Pocket Excel
* Microsoft Pocket Word
* Windows Media Player for Pocket PC
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9. Restrictions
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(1) About the NetFront v3.3 for Pocket PC browser
* This Technical Preview version has the following restrictions:
- Usage of this program is limited until January 31st, 2006.
- Multi-windows function can open up to 2 tabbed windows.
- Only one user agent can be edited.
- Auto-Cruise supports only one-level links.
- Only 10 registered bookmarks can be displayed.
* ActiveX (Flash/WMP) plug-ins are not supported.
* JV-Lite2 is not supported.
* If NetFront is installed in external storage, when the power of
the Pocket PC is turned on or off, the behavior becomes unstable.
* Scroll mode is not available on plug-in screens.
* Integrated Windows Authentication for IIS is not supported.
* To activate scheduled Auto-Cruise, exit NetFront v3.3.
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10. Support
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Support for this Technical Preview version is not available.
If you find any problems or have any feedback, please submit it
using the form at http://nfppc.access.co.jp/english.
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11. Intellectual Property Rights
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* The copyrights relating to this product belong to ACCESS CO., LTD.
If the copyright notices are included separately in a program or
document, the copyright is the property of the copyright holder.
Copyright (C) 1996-2005 ACCESS CO., LTD.
* NetFront is a trademark or a registered trademark of ACCESS CO., LTD.
in Japan and other countries.
* ACCESS is a registered trademark of ACCESS CO., LTD. in Japan.
* Java, all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
* All other trademarks, logos and trade names mentioned in the document
are the property of their respective owners.
* No one may delete or in any manner alter the copyright, trademark or
other proprietary right notices of ACCESS CO., LTD. or any other third
party appearing on or within this product; and no one may add any mark
or indication to this product which is similar to, or may be confused
with, the copyright or other proprietary marks or notices of
ACCESS CO., LTD. or any third party.

Opera 8.5 ppc beta2 is out

Take a look here:
info: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=127518
Dload: http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobileppc/
New features in this build
- tabs
- support for http upload
- keyboard shortcuts:
tab (next form element)
space (scroll down one page)
Have fun
MaX

A review:
Even the first beta version of Opera was a real relevation for the Pocket PC community. Much as it had several bugs (particularly on pre-Windows Mobile 5 devices), it has quickly become the browser of choice for many Pocket PC users (including me), at least on Windows Mobile 5.
The new version is, speed-wise, clearly the best browser I've ever seen for the Pocket PC. It's much-much faster than the alternatives. You'll certainly love it!
The good
* The WM2003(SE) version seems to be working great: I haven't encountered the infamous Opera-is-stalled bug under pre-WM5 operating system any more. I've tested the new version of Opera with all the test pages (the search facility at http://www.europe.com/en/ - screenshot here; RedHotPawn) that make the previous version stall at once. No problems encountered so far.
This may be related to the fact that now Opera senses some Web servers' not answering – see this and this message.
A iPAQ 2210 screenshot can be seen here and here (the latter taken at 25% zoom level so that the entire chessboard is visible) – as can be seen, as opposed to b1, I could log in and play on my iPAQ 2210 as well.
* It feels much faster than beta1, which is a feat in itself because beta 1 was already much faster than any alternative browser.
* There's tab support! (See the screenshots provided for examples.)
* The bug related to not being able to display loooooong pages is fixed. It worked great with all the pages I've thrown it at; an example screenshot of Tero Lehto's blog is here.
* Much as the new version is still using custom (non-native) GUI components, one of the biggest problems, that is, the text areas hiding the last characters in each row behind the scrollbar, is fixed as can be seen in here.
* The "You have XX days left of your trial period" dialog is no longer displayed at startup.
(There must be tons of other bugfixes, as far as previous beta1 bugs are concerned; these were the ones I've explicitly tested and compared to beta1.)
The bad
* After scrolling a page with any amount (or going to a new page), you will not be able to directly tap-and-hold a link to bring up the context menu (so that you can open the link in a new tab) without the need for at least partially highlight it (or the text that contains it). Fortunately, this is a minor annoyance and you'll quickly learn how to highlight (part) the link without clicking it.
* The new version is still using custom GUI components, which makes it impossible to use any kind of common Windows keyboard shortcuts. This is a mayor annoyance to anybody using an external keyboard to enter a lot of texts and wanting to use the traditional Windows shortcuts to quickly navigate through / highlight / copy/cut/paste text in the text input components.
* On some Pocket PC's (for example, the Pocket Loox 720) the new version still uses non-proportional Courier New fonts in the address bar / in the tab titles. This is a minor annoyance, though.
* Unfortunately, the settings dialogs (screenshot 1 and 2) are as simple as in beta1. The latter, however, now has a new checkbox, " Set Opera as default browser", which makes it unnecessary to manually import a registry file (please see the articles in the Recommended links section for the registry import file I've created for beta1 to revert the default browser assignments) in order to revert back to using Pocket Internet Explorer (if you make Opera the default Web browser on your Pocket PC).
Nevertheless, the lack of detailed settings dialogs are not a problem – with manually editing (or, downloading my sample configuration files) the main configuration files of Opera, you can fine-tune it (scrollbar visibility, proxy usage, scroll behaviour etc).
* Under WM2003, Menu/Display/Landscape still doesn't rotate the viewport. Again, this would be pretty easy to implement because Opera, unlike for example the Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) plug-ins or almost all ( uBook and Mobipocket Reader being the most important exceptions) e-book readers, doesn't need to rely on the Portrait-only, underlying PIE engine. This is a minor problem though and "only" affecting WM2003 users – screen rotation works great in post-WM2003 operating systems.
* Still no advanced context menus (copy link, save image), no in-page searching etc. These are, however, only minor annoyances, which don't have a negative effect on the browsing experience itself.
* Still no " One Column" view mode like that of PIE starting with WM2003SE or the PIE plug-in PIEPlus (see this review on the latest version of latter, including a detailed comparison of the "one column" modes offered by PIE and PIEPlus). This would be very useful to maximize the usage of the available screen estate on many pages; for example, the XDA-Dev forums (example screenshot of Opera 8.5b2 rendering the latter here – as can be seen, the useful contents of the page only occupies about 65-70% of the available horizontal screen estate. With a real "One Column" mode, it'd be close to 100%).
* Still no support for system-level favourites. This would also be really easy to implement as there's nothing particular about the .url files in \Windows\Favorites – they're really-really easy to process. (I'd say a hour's work for an average C++ programmer.)
Verdict
I can only use superlatives when speaking of this application. Despite its (still) missing functionalities, its speed and compatibility is just phenomenal.
Recommended links
The following articles/tips all discuss/are all related to the previous, beta 1 version. Note that some of their contents is now that they are fixed are outdated. They may still be worth checking out - particularly the ones on manually editing the Opera configuration files. You'll find a lot of information in these articles never published by anyone else.
ESSENTIAL (NEW, UNIQUE BUGFIXES!!!) to know about the great Web browser, Opera beta! - I haven't run into the same problem with the new Opera version – yet. This doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist any more – therefore, if the address bar auto-completion crashes your Pocket PC with beta2 too, make sure you read this article.
Modify the default scrolling behaviour of Pocket PC Web browsers. Note that even the beta 2 of Opera uses jump-by-link by default (on all operating systems, not just WM5), as far as its D-pad navigation is concerned; you will most probably want to override this and switch to the 'scroll a page at a time' behaviour. Note that the new scroll a page feature (invokable via the Space key) only works on devices with a built-in keyboard; for example, on the HTC Wizard (screenshot of Opera running on my HTC Wizard here).
Opera 8.5 beta on WM5 - it is certainly different from the WM2003(SE) version and is working GREAT!
WM5 compliance report: the bandwidth reduction service OnSpeed works pretty good; additional Toonel information – this article will be useful for everyone that wants to configure his or her Opera to access the Web sites through a HTTP proxy.
Pocket PC version of Famous Web Browser, Opera 8.5 beta Officially Released!

link is broken. Could you upload it. Thanks

Do you mean this one? http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobileppc/
It's working OK with me.

Opera 8.5 beta 2 is out!

Even the first beta version of Opera was a real relevation for the Pocket PC community. Much as it had several bugs (particularly on pre-Windows Mobile 5 devices), it has quickly become the browser of choice for many Pocket PC users (including me), at least on Windows Mobile 5.
The new version is, speed-wise, clearly the best browser I've ever seen for the Pocket PC. It's much-much faster than the alternatives. You'll certainly love it!
The good
* The WM2003(SE) version seems to be working great: I haven't encountered the infamous Opera-is-stalled bug under pre-WM5 operating system any more. I've tested the new version of Opera with all the test pages (the search facility at http://www.europe.com/en/ - screenshot here; RedHotPawn) that make the previous version stall at once. No problems encountered so far.
This may be related to the fact that now Opera senses some Web servers' not answering – see this and this message.
A iPAQ 2210 screenshot can be seen here and here (the latter taken at 25% zoom level so that the entire chessboard is visible) – as can be seen, as opposed to b1, I could log in and play on my iPAQ 2210 as well.
* It feels much faster than beta1, which is a feat in itself because beta 1 was already much faster than any alternative browser.
* There's tab support! (See the screenshots provided for examples.)
* The bug related to not being able to display loooooong pages is fixed. It worked great with all the pages I've thrown it at; an example screenshot of Tero Lehto's blog is here.
* Much as the new version is still using custom (non-native) GUI components, one of the biggest problems, that is, the text areas hiding the last characters in each row behind the scrollbar, is fixed as can be seen in here.
* The "You have XX days left of your trial period" dialog is no longer displayed at startup.
(There must be tons of other bugfixes, as far as previous beta1 bugs are concerned; these were the ones I've explicitly tested and compared to beta1.)
The bad
* After scrolling a page with any amount (or going to a new page), you will not be able to directly tap-and-hold a link to bring up the context menu (so that you can open the link in a new tab) without the need for at least partially highlight it (or the text that contains it). Fortunately, this is a minor annoyance and you'll quickly learn how to highlight (part) the link without clicking it.
* The new version is still using custom GUI components, which makes it impossible to use any kind of common Windows keyboard shortcuts. This is a mayor annoyance to anybody using an external keyboard to enter a lot of texts and wanting to use the traditional Windows shortcuts to quickly navigate through / highlight / copy/cut/paste text in the text input components.
* On some Pocket PC's (for example, the Pocket Loox 720) the new version still uses non-proportional Courier New fonts in the address bar / in the tab titles. This is a minor annoyance, though.
* Unfortunately, the settings dialogs (screenshot 1 and 2) are as simple as in beta1. The latter, however, now has a new checkbox, " Set Opera as default browser", which makes it unnecessary to manually import a registry file (please see the articles in the Recommended links section for the registry import file I've created for beta1 to revert the default browser assignments) in order to revert back to using Pocket Internet Explorer (if you make Opera the default Web browser on your Pocket PC).
Nevertheless, the lack of detailed settings dialogs are not a problem – with manually editing (or, downloading my sample configuration files) the main configuration files of Opera, you can fine-tune it (scrollbar visibility, proxy usage, scroll behaviour etc).
* Under WM2003, Menu/Display/Landscape still doesn't rotate the viewport. Again, this would be pretty easy to implement because Opera, unlike for example the Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) plug-ins or almost all ( uBook and Mobipocket Reader being the most important exceptions) e-book readers, doesn't need to rely on the Portrait-only, underlying PIE engine. This is a minor problem though and "only" affecting WM2003 users – screen rotation works great in post-WM2003 operating systems.
* Still no advanced context menus (copy link, save image), no in-page searching etc. These are, however, only minor annoyances, which don't have a negative effect on the browsing experience itself.
* Still no " One Column" view mode like that of PIE starting with WM2003SE or the PIE plug-in PIEPlus (see this review on the latest version of latter, including a detailed comparison of the "one column" modes offered by PIE and PIEPlus). This would be very useful to maximize the usage of the available screen estate on many pages; for example, the XDA-Dev forums (example screenshot of Opera 8.5b2 rendering the latter here – as can be seen, the useful contents of the page only occupies about 65-70% of the available horizontal screen estate. With a real "One Column" mode, it'd be close to 100%).
* Still no support for system-level favourites. This would also be really easy to implement as there's nothing particular about the .url files in \Windows\Favorites – they're really-really easy to process. (I'd say a hour's work for an average C++ programmer.)
Verdict
I can only use superlatives when speaking of this application. Despite its (still) missing functionalities, its speed and compatibility is just phenomenal.
Recommended links
The following articles/tips all discuss/are all related to the previous, beta 1 version. Note that some of their contents is now that they are fixed are outdated. They may still be worth checking out - particularly the ones on manually editing the Opera configuration files. You'll find a lot of information in these articles never published by anyone else.
ESSENTIAL (NEW, UNIQUE BUGFIXES!!!) to know about the great Web browser, Opera beta! - I haven't run into the same problem with the new Opera version – yet. This doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist any more – therefore, if the address bar auto-completion crashes your Pocket PC with beta2 too, make sure you read this article.
Modify the default scrolling behaviour of Pocket PC Web browsers. Note that even the beta 2 of Opera uses jump-by-link by default (on all operating systems, not just WM5), as far as its D-pad navigation is concerned; you will most probably want to override this and switch to the 'scroll a page at a time' behaviour. Note that the new scroll a page feature (invokable via the Space key) only works on devices with a built-in keyboard; for example, on the HTC Wizard (screenshot of Opera running on my HTC Wizard here).
Opera 8.5 beta on WM5 - it is certainly different from the WM2003(SE) version and is working GREAT!
WM5 compliance report: the bandwidth reduction service OnSpeed works pretty good; additional Toonel information – this article will be useful for everyone that wants to configure his or her Opera to access the Web sites through a HTTP proxy.
Pocket PC version of Famous Web Browser, Opera 8.5 beta Officially Released!

New version V9 of C# IDE Mobile

New version V9 of C# IDE Mobile
C# IDE Mobile is an application (totally free) that I've developed to be able to develop with C#/.NET2CF directly on the Pocket PC-Windows Mobile 5/6 (it doesn't require the .NET SDK, you don't need a desktop computer).
You can download the new version at:
http://www.geocities.com/hrowson/wm5_software/index.htm
or from my personal page:
http://www.geocities.com/hrowson/index.htm
This new version mainly adds the following improvements:
- Fixed issue with declaring size of initialised array (like in "new int[2]{4,6};")
- It is no longer necessary to fully qualify locally declared class names (before you needed to write like "TestNS.MyClass" even if you were already in "TestNS")
- Fixed bug with logical operators on enum types (for example on button.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Bottom | AnchorStyles.Right);
- Manual casting is now supported. Usually, C# IDE Mobile auto casts when possible, but for example, in "int test = (int)AnchorStyles.Bottom" manual cast is necessary. Also, this avoids removing casts required in VS.
- Fixed bug with multiple "if"/"else if"/"else" structures
- "static" keyword now works for arrays and generics, also fixed a problem with indexed assignments
- Added support for nested classes (like System.Windows.Forms.ListView+SelectedIndexCollection)
- Added support for double type
- Improved comment and string parsing (to avoid "//" making a mess in strings)
Harvey

Thanx, looks great

[WIDGET] Mobile Best Parking Widget - WVGA Initial Release

Hello everyone!
This is my first attempt at a widget, and whiles it is not very sophisticated right now, it could prove to be a useful service.
I tried to create a 0.1 version release of a widget to access the BestParking mobile site.
Currently the Zoom settings work best for a WVGA device, and the only cities supported by the Website , BestParking for Mobile are New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
BestParking helps provide parking rates for a vehicle covering specific parking times within the mentioned cities.
Tested on a Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a.
Features Needed:
a) Auto-detect Resolution of device
b) Smartphone friendly version
c) Back button
d) Help button
e) Geolocation? (via Google Gears or other API)
f) Better Icon
g) non-mobile site access
To Install:
1) Ensure that enable_widgets_wm6.5.cab is installed on device
2) Extract Best_Parking.wgt file from attached Zip file
3) Copy wgt file to device
4) Click on Best_Parking.wgt to install
Version History
0.2 - 08/27/2009
i) Removed scroll bars
ii) added Back button
0.1 - 07/29/2009
Initial Release:
i) Supports WVGA
ii) Navigates to Mobile Site - mobile.bestparking.com
Thanks to the MSDN and Windows Mobile Blog team for the basic steps and API help.
Any suggestions and features, and mild criticism appreciated. Thanks.