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Pocket PC Networking >> Pocket Internet Explorer (2003) + CSS Support

by U3BhcnF6IChOWik » Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:59:04 GMT

Does anyone know where I can find a list of CSS attributes that Pocket
Internet Explorer supports?

I'm trying to mangle size/colour of buttons and set text to blink etc, but
none of the CSS I know seems to be supported (or is invalid).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Pocket PC Networking >> Pocket Internet Explorer (2003) + CSS Support

by Andy Dadi » Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:14:59 GMT


This documentation, unfortunately, doesn't exist. It should become
available in the next 6 months. In the meantime, here's some info that
might help.

No CSS support before Pocket PC 2002. From then on, the browser has CSS
level 2 support with the following exceptions:
Absolute and relative positioning is not supported, so no position, top,
left, z-order, etc. properties.
The line-height property is not supported.
The white-space property is only partially supported.
The clip and overflow properties aren't supported.

The ability to customize buttons, text boxes and other form controls is
limited. At the minimum, you should be able to set the font, but not
necessarily the text or background colors on some controls. This improved a
little in PPC2003.
Blink is evil. Don't ever use it. Thankfully, you cannot on PPC.

Also note that the CSS parser in Pocket IE is more standards compliant than
IE on the desktop, therefore, it is less forgiving. Run your stuff through
the w3c CSS validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ to make sure
you're not to blame for something not working :-)







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Pocket PC Networking >> Pocket Internet Explorer (2003) + CSS Support

by Steve Meredith [MS] » Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:31:26 GMT

Until then, this might help:
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/articles/213771.aspx

-Steve [MS]
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Pocket Internet Explorer (2003) + CSS Support

by U3BhcnF6IChOWik » Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:39:02 GMT









Awh, what's wrong with blink? I mean it may cause strange things to happen
under windows while the screen refreshes (artifacts etc), but sometimes it's
necessary to alert the user to the most important item in a list (an alarm
queue in my case).

I'm also working with the Treo 600, and the "blazer" browser - which does
support blink, and works quite well in my application.


Thanks for the link, I'll make good use of it.




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Pocket Internet Explorer (2003) + CSS Support

by U3BhcnF6IChOWik » Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:43:03 GMT

Half a day of searching on the net trying to find a list of supported CSS
attributes and you deliver this link on a silver platter *sigh*

This document has been exactly what I've been looking for, thanks!!!








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