{"id":557,"date":"2011-07-21T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:28:56","slug":"please-dont-buy-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/please-dont-buy-windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Don&#8217;t Buy Windows Phone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/02-15-10winphone2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/02-15-10winphone2-162x300.png\" alt=\"Windows Phone 7 has a terrible browser and &#039;m disappointed that they haven&#039;t updated the rendering engine to at least IE8 yet.\" title=\"Windows Phone 7 has a terrible browser and &#039;m disappointed that they haven&#039;t updated the rendering engine to at least IE8 yet.\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/02-15-10winphone2-162x300.png 162w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/02-15-10winphone2.png 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf they give you one free, use it to hold down a stack of paper on your desk.<\/p>\n<p>But please, for the love of the Internet DO NOT USE A WINDOWS PHONE TO BROWSE THE WEB.<\/p>\n<p>It uses <abbr title=\"Internet Explorer\">Internet Exploder<\/abbr> 7 as its rendering engine and it pretty much breaks everything that regular IE7 broke. As well, it looks just plain ugly. The scaling isn&#8217;t really anti-aliased and looks terrible.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a terrible browsing experience overall and as a web developer I am afraid I&#8217;ll have to hurt you if you make my life harder by using Windows Phone 7.<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If they give you one free, use it to hold down a stack of paper on your desk. But please, for the love of the Internet DO NOT USE A WINDOWS PHONE TO BROWSE THE WEB. It uses Internet Exploder 7 as its rendering engine and it pretty much breaks everything that regular IE7 broke. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}