Webby: A Free, Tabbed Browser

[Raphael Salgado]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.users.tpg.com.au/lordf/anoriginalidea/webby.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.users.tpg.com.au/lordf/a...lidea/webby.htm</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Webby provides a powerful desktop-style browsing experience on the Pocket PC platform. Besides tabbed browsing Webby automatically provides the ability to scale web pages using the two top microbrowsers, Skweezer.net and Google Mobile."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/webbyscreenshot1.jpg" /><br /><br />If you're a fan of Skweezer and Google Mobile, this simple but powerful freeware application integrates these services into their interface, while giving you tabs for handling multiple web pages simultaneously. It uses .NET Compact Framework 2.0, is fully configurable, and takes up less than 90k on your device. Aren't the simple answers usually the best ones? :idea:

[powder2000]

Very nice little application. This is what I want/need, works great. Thanks for the heads up. Also, you don't have to use skweezer or google mobile, which I don't.

[tregnier]

Too bad the specs do not include WM5 as an operating system.

[AtTheCross]

Is this a stand alone browser or does it just sit on top of the PIE interface?

[Paragon]

It uses .NET Compact Framework 2.0, is fully configurable, and takes up less than 90k on your device. Aren't the simple answers usually the best ones? :idea:

Yeah, but isn't .NET CF 2.0 about 5mb in size?

[burtcom]

Yeah, but isn't .NET CF 2.0 about 5mb in size?

I can't seem to find device requirements, but I doubt it's that big. Might as well install it as it -- it has a lot of enhancements over 1.X and I bet we'll see more and more apps requiring it.

[Menneisyys]

I do not recommend this application. To find out why, please read the full review here at the Pocket PC Thoughts forums (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46938).

[Menneisyys]

Is this a stand alone browser or does it just sit on top of the PIE interface?

It sits atop of the PIE browser like a shell. Please read the above-linked review (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46938).

[Menneisyys]

Very nice little application. This is what I want/need, works great. Thanks for the heads up. Also, you don't have to use skweezer or google mobile, which I don't.

Unfortunately, you will need to (internally) - it's the only way to use the One Column view mode.

[Menneisyys]

Too bad the specs do not include WM5 as an operating system.

It's compatible with WM5. I've even run benchmark tests on two different WM5 devices.

[Paragon]

Yeah, but isn't .NET CF 2.0 about 5mb in size?

............but I doubt it's that big...........

I just installed .NET CF 2.0, and it is 5.4MB in size. Even if you tell it to install to a storage card it installs to main memory. 5.4MB is a lot of onboard memory to give up for something that is required for so few applications.

Menneisyys, or Rapheal, perhaps one of you could explain what .NET Compact Framework does on a Windows Mobile device, and why only some applications require it, and most do not.

Dave

[Menneisyys]

Menneisyys, or Rapheal, perhaps one of you could explain what .NET Compact Framework does on a Windows Mobile device, and why only some applications require it, and most do not.


It's a completely new, radically upgraded version of the built-in Compact Framework, a Java-like programming environment.

Version 2 is radically new in, for example, (some of the - PIM only) WindowsCE database, SMS etc. handling. This is why a lot of new apps only support CF2 (for example, SMS Notifier (http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&amp;p=580&amp;more=1)) and are very hard or, without using commercial, third-party for example WinCE DB access class libraries, impossible to rewrite to be CF 1.1-compatible.

[Paragon]

Thanks, Menneisyys.

So far I have been able to get along without installing it, and using that 5.4mb of storage. If we had close to the 64mb as advertised for most WM5.0 devices it wouldn't be so bad, but with substantially less right out of the box, 5.4mb is a lot of space to give up. An application has to have a lot of value not found elsewhere before it is worth that kind of secondary baggage.

Dave

[Menneisyys]

An application has to have a lot of value not found elsewhere before it is worth that kind on secondary baggage.


Yup, 5M is quite big for today's 128M Flash ROM (let alonbe 64M ones like the hx21xx/hx24xx) Pocket PC's.

And Webby isn't really worth it.