Feature

Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE

Desktop Internet Explorer 6.0

ROM footprint (on X86. Exact footprint depends on processor and features selected.)

2.63 MB for rendering/browser engine. 4.3 MB for all components.

+1.8 MB for plug-ins / JVM +Up to 6 MB of cache

15 MB minimum.

80 MB typical

Processors

All Windows CE–supported processors

Xtreme PC EX is MIPS CPU (Alchemy)

Intel X86, Motorola PowerPC (Apple Macintosh OS).

Input devices

Touch or mouse, keyboard, 5-key navigational device (remote)

Mouse, keyboard; others, including voice recognition, available through third-party application.

Printing

Yes

Yes, print preview, custom print templates.

Fixed width layout (dynamic fitting of page to screen)

Yes (optional)
See Adding Television-Style Navigation to a Browser to a Browser for details.

No

Television-Style (5-key) navigation

Yes (optional)
See Adding Television-Style Navigation to a Browser for details.

No

Feature

Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE

Desktop Internet Explorer 6.0

User interface (UI)

Must be provided by OEM host application. Sample browser UIs (IESample, IESimple) are provided.

Chip PC offers full remote configurable shell and customized skin.

Internet Explorer.
Browser functionality can also be exposed in a stand-alone application to create a custom user interface.

Auto-complete URL

Can be provided by OEM host application.

No

Yes

Drag and Drop-operations

No

Yes

Yes

Favorites

Can be provided by OEM host application. The sample browser, IESample, implements the Favorites feature.

Yes

Yes

Forward/Back navigation

64 KB fixed RAM allocation for Forward and Back navigation storage (travel log). Forward and Back navigation to 64 frames, or less than 64 Web pages depending on the number of frames per Web page.

Default RAM size can be modified through settings

2 MB RAM allocation.

Internet Options Control Panel

Yes, provided as a sample application. An OEM can modify the sample or replace it with a custom application.

Chip PC offers its own settings (much wider than the standard supplied settings)

Yes

Localized languages

Individual components (DLLs) are localized in all languages localized for Windows CE. WBT UI is localized to Japanese.

All languages localized for Windows. Support for vertical text. Single binary for complex scripts.

Online Help

No online Help content provided, but an OEM can implement simple HTML-based Help pages.

Windows HTML-based Help.

View HTML source

Use view-source protocol or save page as <filename>, and then view.

Yes

Feature

Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE

Desktop Internet Explorer 6.0

Client Capabilities Behavior

Support for properties only, no methods. No other Internet Explorer behaviors supported.

Yes

Cookies

The maximum number of elements (4 KB maximum each) set by registry. Persistent depending on the OEM implementation.

In Xtreme PC – persistent settings can be modified locally / remotely

The maximum number of elements (4 KB maximum each) set by registry. Persistent to hard disk drive.

Data Binding (provides asynchronous downloading from server, client-side sorting and filtering)

No

Yes

Supported Protocols

IPv4, IPv6, HTTP 1.1 (http, https), FTP, /images/kbase/P>

Javascript and Active-X supported as optional plug-ins. Not recommended due to security issues

IPv4, IPv6, HTTP 1.1 (http, https), FTP, /images/kbase/TR>

User agent (UA) string (specifies browser compatibility)

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; OEMSTRING)

Chip PC supports user configurable strings for portal identification.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)

Feature

Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE

Desktop Internet Explorer 6.0

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

MSXML Parser 3.0

MSXML Parser 3.0

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

Supports the W3C Document Object Model Level 1. For information, see About DHTML.
No support for dynamic properties, HTML+TIME, or transitions.
Supports image filtering as optional component.
No support for behaviors, except for client capabilities.

Full support for Internet Explorer 6.0 Document Object Model, element behaviors, view link, filters, transitions, HTML+TIME.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Version 4.01 supported except for ABBR, Q, and OPTGROUP tags.

Supports tables, forms, frames, and floating frames.

XML MIME viewer.

No VRML.

Version 4.0 fully supported, except for ABBR and Q tags.

Scripting

Windows CE JScript 5.5 (ECMA-262 compliant)

Visual Basic Scripting edition (VBScript 5.5)

Supports script authoring.

Windows Scripting Host supports JScript 5.5 and VBScript 5.5.

Supports script authoring.

Feature

Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE

Desktop Internet Explorer 6.0

ActiveX® controls

Supports use of controls that are already installed on user's device. An OEM can add support for automatic download.

Blocked by default. XPI will be available for auto downloading

Yes. Ability to download and use dependent on security zone settings.

Audio formats

WAV (PCM), other formats through MIME-type handlers.

Windows Media, WAV (PCM), other formats through MIME-type handlers.

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

Compliant with CSS1 and CSS2 core functionality, limited support for filters and transitions.

Yes

File formats

GIF, JPEG, BMP, XBM, PNG, HTML, TXT, GIF89a.

All Internet formats. Some, such as PDF and RAM may require third-party plug-in.

Font downloading

No

Yes

MIME-type helpers

Can be provided by OEM host application.

Many, installable.

Multiple-Language API

Yes

Yes

Streaming media through the Microsoft DirectX® application programming interface (API)

Yes, through the WMP 6.4 ActiveX Control.

Yes

Java Virtual Machine

Java-language applets are supported when a third-party Java Virtual Machine is installed on a device. There is no Microsoft Virtual Machine for Windows CE.

Chip PC offers two JVM plug-ins from NSI COM. See details on Chip PC web-site

Java-language applets are supported when a third-party Java Virtual Machine is installed on a device.

Cache

Yes

Yes

Clipboard

Can be implemented by OEM host application. Not fully implemented in the sample browser application.

Yes

Yes

Context Menu (right-click menu) support

Yes. Also supports context menu extensions through registry settings and through scripts.

Yes. Also supports context menu extensions through registry settings and through IDocHostUIHandler.

HTML Editing

Limited support (cut/copy/paste/delete and undo/redo).

Yes

HTML Applications (HTA) Use to create trusted HTML applications.

Yes

Yes

Intelligent Forms (for automatic completion of user input, saved passwords)

No

Yes

Link highlighting

Underlined, hover, none

Underlined, hover, none

Offline browsing, subscriptions

Can be implemented by OEM host application.

Yes for kiosks and limited portal applications

Yes

Feature

Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE

Desktop Internet Explorer 6.0

Encryption

40-bit and 128-bit SSL

40-bit and 128-bit SSL

Hit Logging (to monitor activity on a Web site)

Yes

Yes

Recreational Software Advisory Council Internet rating system (RSACi)

No

Yes

Security

SSL2, SSL3, TLS 1.0, Passport v1.4

SSL2, SSL3, TLS 1.0, Passport v1.4

URL Security Zones

Yes

Yes

User authentication

Basic and NTLM supported directly and other methods, including Kerberos, supported by means of integration through the SSPI.

All Windows-supported authentication methods.