Internet Explorer Mobile version updates.
Published June 2, 2010 by Richard Uren
We’re making some changes to the way we classify Windows Mobile devices which may effect you.
Presently we classify these windows mobiles as follows :
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.8) as Windows Mobile OS 5.0 with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.8
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) as Windows Mobile OS 6.1 with Internet Explorer Mobile 7.11
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.12) as Windows Mobile OS 6.0 with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.12
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile 6.0) as Windows Mobile OS 6.0 with Internet Explorer Mobile 8.12
Essentially relying on the IEMobile part of the string to tell us the version of IE. From the 10th June 2010 we’ll be making the following changes and bringing the browser more or less inline with the operating system :
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.8) as Windows Mobile OS 5.0 with Internet Explorer Mobile 5.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) as Windows Mobile OS 6.1 with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.12) as Windows Mobile OS 6.0 with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile 6.0) as Windows Mobile OS 6.5 (or 6.0) with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.5
This seems a sane way to renumber the browser releases and brings them into line with how microsoft publically refers to the their Internet Explorer Mobile versions.
Thanks to Jonathan for bringing up an erroneous classification in the forums which triggered the broader investigation.
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