Windows Phone 7 : Porn Booted

[giga Veteran]

Does anyone even visit any HTML5 heavy sites? Neowin doesn't seem to be since I'm viewing it just fine right now in IE8. All the reviews for MIE in WP7 has said it's good even though it lacks flash/SL and HTML5. If web devs have coded their sites for IE7/8 already, which many have done by now, then those sites will work just fine in WP7's browser, minus any flash videos. But flash support isn't MS's job, that's adobes, any lack of it isn't because MS blocked it like Apple has. MS has openly said since Feb that they'll work/working with Adobe to get flash on WP7.

SL support will come as well, once they've got more of the platform on SL4 probably and off of the hybrid SL3/4 they use now.

As for HTML5 support, that'll come to MIE once IE9 is done and they can work off of it's rendering engine, but since it's not done, why mess around with a alpha/beta version that could have god knows how many bugs still in there? Common sense says you use a stable base that you know has wide support from websites already, so IE7/8 it is.

Mobile optimized sites for iPhone/Android use HTML5 for media playback. CNN, Vimeo, Youtube, ESPN, NPR, TED, and so on.

[ahhell]

It's much more convenient to access such material on a mobile phone if you are in bed and away from your computer - that is one of the most annoying things I find when I wish to access free porn; I must start up my computer and even sometimes get out of bed when I am comfy. I'm not suggesting all porn apps would be free, but some might be.

TMI

[Mr. Gibs]

Yes, because Android's wild west of a marketplace doesn't have any downsides. Oh, what's that? A wallpaper app that steals personal data? Neat!

Same thing happens on the iPhone too ;)

And can be a whole lot worse: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/853524-spyphone-app-proof-of-concept/

[George P Global Moderator]

Mobile optimized sites for iPhone/Android use HTML5 for media playback. CNN, Vimeo, Youtube, ESPN, NPR, TED, and so on.

That's the mobile version of sites, but again, you can just as well visit the normal desktop version with MIE since it's based on the desktop IE engine, minus any flash video etc (for now) and they'll showup just fine.

[Elliott]

Same thing happens on the iPhone too ;)

And can be a whole lot worse: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/853524-spyphone-app-proof-of-concept/

Err, same thing can happen on the iPhone. It hasn't yet because there's an approval process. An app that includes something like SpyPhone would probably never make it onto the iPhone app store and it can't be installed any other way.

Also, that's exactly what the app on Android was doing (just as bad), and it wasn't just a proof of concept. It actually happened. It asks for permission, but with a vague prompt about asking for "phone info."

Approval processes aren't perfect, but I'd prefer having more peace of mind about what I'm installing than what I get on Android.

That's the mobile version of sites, but again, you can just as well visit the normal desktop version with MIE since it's based on the desktop IE engine, minus any flash video etc (for now) and they'll showup just fine.

You can do that on the iPhone as well, but mobile-optimized sites are great. Plus, even desktop versions of sites will start/are starting to support HTML5 and CSS3 standards.

[Mr. Gibs]

Err, same thing can happen on the iPhone. It hasn't yet because there's an approval process. An app that includes something like SpyPhone would probably never make it onto the iPhone app store and it can't be installed any other way.

Also, that's exactly what the app on Android was doing (just as bad), and it wasn't just a proof of concept. It actually happened. It asks for permission, but with a vague prompt about asking for "phone info."

Approval processes aren't perfect, but I'd prefer having more peace of mind about what I'm installing than what I get on Android.

Even so with the approval process, the proof of concept doesn't use anything illegal. It's all public APIs that any application can make use of.

And as someone pointed out on the front page: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/07/29/wallpaper-app-causes-android-security-scare . Sorry to disappoint you.

[Ayepecks]

How have I been inaccurate, I'm telling it like it is and what it will have at launch and for the months following launch.

No I disagree on the fact it's just behind Safari, Safari 4 for iOS is a modern mobile web browser that supports modern standards and has various means of playing online video, yes no Flash but still better than mobile IE at the moment. The new version of mobile IE fails the Acid 2 test, it gets 12 on the Acid 3, it's a browser that looks like its from years ago.

Seems a rather major detail to cleverly omit by saying the browser won't support Flash, when it will, just not at launch but shortly after. If you knew this, why did you omit it?