Once
you learn a few tricks, you’ll find that surfing on Windows Phone is as
easy as doing it on your desktop. How Internet Explorer Mobile responds
to finger gestures is similar to what you find elsewhere on the phone.
1. Navigating Around the Page
Flick Flick your finger across the screen in any direction to scroll the web page. The faster you flick, the faster the page scrolls.
Pinch and spread
Spread your thumb and forefinger apart to zoom in on a web page. Pinch
your fingers together to zoom out. These are the key moves you need for
reading on your phone.
Double-tap Double-tap your finger on a page to automatically center and zoom in on that part of the page. Double-tap again to zoom out.
Rotate
Turn your phone 90 degrees to change to landscape view, which can make
some web pages easier to read. It can also make the on-screen keyboard
easier to type on because the keys are slightly bigger.
2. Navigating from Site to Site
On
Windows Phone, your finger is the mouse. When you run across an
underlined or highlighted link on a web page, just tap it. The site it
points to will open in your browser. (And that’s not all. If you run
across a phone number or street address on a site, you can also often
tap those to dial or map them.)
You’ll also quickly notice
that there aren’t any arrow icons for whisking you to the next or
previous page, like there are on your desktop browser. So how do you do
it? Press the Back button on your phone to return to the site you last
viewed. There’s also a Forward option hidden behind the menu at the
bottom of the browser.
