10-26-2004, 05:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Pen Stroke-Based Zooming for PDA Screens
"The proliferation of the Internet and the increasing popularity of handheld computing devices pose a challenge: it is difficult to read and navigate through Web pages displayed on small screens. Several research teams have addressed the problem with various methods of zooming in on relevant content from a Web page to make it easier to view. Researchers from Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Asia, and Tsinghua University in China have devised an interface that goes a step further by allowing a user to zoom in on relevant content and collapse irrelevant content with a single pen stroke. The interface could eventually be included as an extension to small-screen Web browsers."
While MS Research is generally quite separate from other divisions in the company, this technology looks practical, and I hope MS will implement it in Pocket PCs someday. 8)
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10-26-2004, 05:35 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 191
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Its already available in some form w/ the MSN toolbar and the MSN application for the desktop version of IE... doesn't help us much in the ppc arena though... I'm personally not to impressed w/ it (it is currently a highlight viewer) and definitely would have to be used w/ a VGA since QVGA already has too little space to view pages.
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10-26-2004, 06:33 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 291
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So what web browser is that shown? 8O
WM2005 plz 
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10-26-2004, 08:27 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Looks like a desktop IE browser for that prototype. 
--janak
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10-26-2004, 09:49 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 191
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nm about m comment... the highlight thing doesn't do the same thing... kind of looked like it though
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10-27-2004, 01:16 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,017
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Nice to have feature. But what I really need in pocket IE is the 'right click and open in new windows' feature that we found in desktop IE.
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10-27-2004, 05:05 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,616
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MultiIE does that already.
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10-27-2004, 09:27 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,479
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Picsel viewer/browser anyone?
Seriously.
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Linear Mode
