Chapter 11: Internet Explorer, sneak peek

I'm not ready to post the first version of Chapter 11: Internet Explorer, but here's a sneak peek at the topic/task list as it now stands. I should be able to post the first look at the actual chapter soon.

Find and launch

UI tour

The address bar is at the bottom of the screen to conserve screen space, and it won’t disappear when you switch to landscape view. The More menu — always just a tap away — is the single place to go for switching tabs, revisiting recently-viewed sites, accessing and adding to your favorites, pinning websites to the Start screen, sharing websites with others, finding text on a page, and accessing browser settings.

App bar -

Refresh + Address bar by default

Address bar suggests websites as you start to type, showing matches from your favorites, browsing history, and popular Bing searches.

More: Works in landscape mode. Multi-touch zoom.

Web-ready keyboard. dedicated “.com” key to reduce the number of characters you’ll have to type. You can tap and hold the “.com” key to choose from “.org,” “.edu”, or “.net.”

When you need to enter text on a webpage, the view will automatically zoom in to make it easier.

By default, Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone identifies itself to websites as a mobile browser so that sites can optimize their content for your phone.

Navigate to a web page

Refresh the current web page

Find something on the current web page

Save a picture from a web page to you phone

Search the web

From IE

With Bing

Tabs

Access tab UI

Add a new tab

View a tab

Delete a tab

Open a link in a new tab

Access recent web sites

Favorites

Access Favorites

Edit a Favorite

Delete a Favorite

Add a web page to Favorites

Watch a YouTube video

You can view YouTube videos just as easily, without having to download a standalone YouTube app.

Work with other Windows Phone features

Automatic recognition of street addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses on webpages.

Share a web page

More ways to share, enabled you to get links via NFC, and re-enabled Find-on-Page.

Share or copy a link

Share a link

NFC – receive and share

Copy and paste text from a web site

Pin a web page to the Start screen

Get quick access to favorite webpages by pinning Tiles for those pages to your Start screen.

Customize Internet Exploer

As you might expect, Internet Explorer Mobile offers a number of configurable options. These are available via Setting, which you can access in the app via More (“…”), Settings or by navigating to Settings, Applications, Internet Explorer.