Web developers who want see how their sites will look on the new version of IE 9 Mobile, which will soon ship along with Windows Phone “Mango,” the next-generation update to the Windows Phone mobile OS, now have a new tool to do so. Today, Microsoft has launched Mobile Test Drive, a companion to the Internet Explorer Test Drive site for the desktop. The new site features a number of HTML5 and performance demos highlighting IE 9 Mobile’s capabilities.
The mobile site is organized much like its desktop counterpart and includes may of the same samples in addition to several mobile-specific ones.
Over the next few months, even more samples will be added as we get closer to Mango’s commercial release, says Microsoft. Mango is expected later this fall.
Currently, the first 15 samples on the new site include the following:
- Audio Player (from MIX11)
- Geolocation
- Border Radius
- DOM Local Storage
- Scalable Vector Graphics
- CSS3 Media Queries
- DOMContentLoaded
- FishIE Tank
- Speed Reading (from MIX11)
- Animated Text
- HamsterDance Revolution
- Business Charts
- IE Logo
- Video Panorama
- Browser Control Theming
