<p>After struggling for years with sub-par browsers on small screen devices Apple did a good job raising the bar with Safari on the iPhone and now iPad. Google for some reason stumbled a little out of the gate with the browser on Android – rather than take their existing and proven Chrome they delivered an older and less capable core and it looks like only now with the 4.x generation devices that they’re finally starting to improve things (though that doesn’t help the 80-90% of their existing user base who will never get an upgrade to the latest goodness)</p> <p></p> <p>With the initial release of Windows Phone 7 it seemed like Microsoft had fallen into the trap of not treating mobile browsing as a first class experience and they shipped an IE7-like browser. That changed however with the release of v7.5 “Mango” which brought the full capabilities of IE9 (arguably the most standard adherent HTML5 browser) to the platform.</p> <p></p> <p>With people paying more attention to the mobile browser evolution and digging into capabilities (such as <a href="http://www.sencha.com/blog/galaxy-nexus-the-html5-developer-scorecard/"> this review from Sencha</a>) and arguing that the mobile <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/13/whyAppsAreNotTheFuture.html"> web is not going away any time soon</a> it would be great to see how the "Mango" with IE9 stacks up in these tests against the other two... Would be great to see Sencha or similar <a href="http://www.sencha.com/blog/galaxy-nexus-the-html5-developer-scorecard/"> run their tests</a> against all three? So far playing around with IE9 in Mango, it seems to do a really good job in most situations but I've not drilled down to quite the level of detail that they have yet.</p>