Years ago I collected a small zoo of MP880s, 900cs, and J720. For the past decade or so, all were hidden away, batteries discharged. I thought of getting rid of them
( I see some still command quite a price
). They run different WinCE versions with their own quirks...and tricks.
Yet, it is only now that I am finding the browsers have unique features or lack of features. Some render HTML 4.0, but not others...MP880 doesn't...
(maybe HTML3 and it doesn't support Javascript so far as I can tell
). That the J720 supports vbscript is a welcomed finding and deserves further exploration.
There is no comparison in time spent vs reward delivered IMHO in taking literally a few minutes to write an HTML file on Pocket word, especially if using a template...and customizing font size, background colors or images. Near instant creativity, No compiling delays, no limit to customization.
All I can tell you is my hpc's aren't in some closet gathering dust as they had. I have some absolutely great Date/Time clocks now located around my home reminding me of the weekday, time, day of month...FAR better than any of those store bought red LED alarm clocks. And I can change its appearance literally in seconds...different font family and font size, colors, change it for the different seasons, or for day and night. They run off my cell phone charger with my modified usb to hpc inverter mod...a few watts at most.
I can turn lights or sprinklers on and off and for a specific timed number of hours...IoT is really within the grasp of WinCE...all versions, especially the oldest retro versions
(if one learns how to upload a webserver program on an ESP8266 microcontroller, elsewhere...not an impossible task
). Make a dedicated Webcontroller client, or weather station,
(and clock
) all in the same boat...its possible using hpc WiFi cards. These are more challenging projects, of course.
Newbies could have a better initial experience here IMHO, if they spent some small portion of their early time working on HTML webpage design ...something that could serve them and the hpc community as well for years to come.
So, Where's the Easy-As-PIE section???? That's the Pocket Internet Explorer..
(and its part of/or an extension of WinCE OS
). I would like to see that Easy-as-PIE section up there in bright lights too, some day, some how. Is that too much to ask???
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