Thursday, March 31, 2005
The Sad Story of Secure Mobile Browsing
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 11:00 AM
"As many of our readers know, I am a major proponent of mobile-friendly web design and browsing. Very few browsers in the mobile world are powerful enough to support modern w3c technologies (IE, NetFront, Opera & OpenWave) however they are good enough to do some basic browsing and even have SSL support. But especially in the case of IE (which is used a lot with PocketPCs & WinCE), Microsoft is still bundling a variant of IE 4.0.1 with WinCE...You see, the same rules do not apply in the embedded world as they do in the desktop world. The company that wrote the OS does not have to release updates to faulty software to end users. Its responsibility is solely towards the integrator companies, not end users."
This article nicely summarizes up the problems in the mobile world, although I'd like to think there's something Microsoft can do more aggressively about it. PIE 4.01 is certainly a dated browser -- and I'd be very happy if Microsoft fixes it sooner or later, and finds a long-term solution to the software patching and distribution problem.
This article nicely summarizes up the problems in the mobile world, although I'd like to think there's something Microsoft can do more aggressively about it. PIE 4.01 is certainly a dated browser -- and I'd be very happy if Microsoft fixes it sooner or later, and finds a long-term solution to the software patching and distribution problem.
