Pocket Internet Explorer Capabilities

So, I'm trying to figure out (especially Javascript) capabilties of various Pocket Internet Explorer versions.

This article was helpful, but I want to have a more fine-grained overview. So before I put way too much work into making test pages and code to try out every possible javascript function, I wondered if anyone has any resources (Maybe this was on MSDN?)

Would be great to have a big browser compatibility table of javascript functions and CSS elements (including the ones that were introduced in IE4 and are long phased out again)

I did have this:
https://www.hpcfactor.com/support/cesd/200019/windows_ce_pocket_inte...

... but I didn't update it for PIE4 and not as thorough on the API as I think you would like.

Not exactly what you wanted but these two threads from joval about creating JavaScript programs may help

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18614&st...

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18641&st...

I'm afraid that I cannot find any definitive capabilities document for what the jscript provider is capable of, I even checked platform builder. You can see the C interpretative calls in the PIE lib files, but there is no clear map between the JScript/JavaScript/VBScript API and the C code.

I thus imagine that the IE 4 SDK is going to be the closest you can get to an API document, unless it was long forgotten on MSDN.

Remember when we were looking for that evt SDK? Do you think if I looked on WBM (way back machine ) on the old msdn ce site, we may find something ?
What would a sort of document like that be called you think so I can try to look?

I don't recall anything like it back in the late 90's or early 00's, but if it did exist, it would have been linked via microsoft.com/windowsce at one point in time.

Here's a Japanese site I found from 1999 which might be having the HTML source code to check which Javascript version PIE supports.
Haven't tried it on my environment, but I will link it just in case. It's a really famous website in Japanese about programming.

https://www.tohoho-web.com/lng/199911/99110116.htm

-stingraze

Edited by stingraze 2022-12-25 8:48 AM

PIE and MSIE/CE are hosting the Microsoft JScript engine.

As far as I remember, JScript on WinCE was identical to the desktop version except for the lack of Active Debugging.
I used to keep the Wikipedia JScript page up to date with all the JScript versions back then, including the Windows CE versions, so you can find exactly which version of JScript is in each version of Windows CE here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

As for the complete documentation and differences with ES3 (official JavaScript), check out my AXSH library repository:
https://github.com/PhMajerus/AXSH.Library/tree/main/Docs
It contains a copy of the original Windows Script Technologies 5.6 documentation, which includes the full JScript and VBScript documentations (you may know VBScript as eMbedded Visual Basic), and a PDF from within Microsoft that documents all the deviations from ES3 to JScript.

Edited by PhMajerus 2024-03-09 1:00 AM