I just got the Nokia 770 tablet about a week ago and I must say, I love this device. It does exactly what it is supposed to do and does it well. I am a CTO (Chief Technical Officer) where I work and I'd like to have certain managers (who walk around on the shop floor a lot) use these devices.

Here's the main thing that stops me. Our company uses Lotus Notes (Domino 6) and the iNotes [how you get your email over the web] function looks for IE6 or greater and if you dont have it, gives you a very unsatisfactory screed for email. Other Lotus Notes databases work just fine in the browser. I also have one other intranet function that uses ActiveX I'd like to get to.

1) Doesn't Opera have a setting that allows it to report itself as Internet Explorer? I couldn't find it on the Nokia. Can this be done?

2) Is there anyway to get ActiveX content on the Nokia? I though Opera had an ActiveX plugin or something - but I admit I am not an Opera user on my PCs so I may not know what I am talking about.

I think this device has the best hand held web browsing experience there is. Can anyone help me overcome these two seeming limitations?

Thanks,

Russ

You can disguise Opera and pass it for IE by using a local proxy on the 770 that changes the user-agent it presents to web sites : Privoxy does this well (see Howto in Wiki).
However you will never get ActiveX to run on the 770 (fortunately), because that is code for Windows and x86 CPUs, and the tablet has neither (fortunately).

In opera.ini (/home/user/.opera) the [User Agent] section sets the ID to 3 already and that is supposed to report the browser as IE... If that does not work, then the [Special] section might make it report itself as IE. See http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/

Just a guess though...

VNC may be an option, it would allow them to access their desktops via the 770 albeit therefresh rate ofthe screen is kinda slow.

A few years ago, I used to work in IT for a manufacturing company. We were looking for an inexpensive, portable device to view and possibly markup documents. We were already emailing pdf files from a legacy ERP system. All the portable tablets at the time were $$$.

Novell Groupwise works great with the 770. The Groupwise Web access java servlet engine flawlessly renders pages to the 770. While the 770 can't display Word Docs or Excel Spreadsheets by default, The Groupwise Webaccess viewer will render word docs, excel spreadsheets, and pdf files directly to the 770.

Since Novell 6.5/Suse linux uses web based management, the Nokia works great to remotely restart servers via a web page. I'm presently using vnc to work around any other issues.

Other web based applications that require popups enabled. I don't like popups on the 770. To work around this problem, I'll find a URL within the web application that loads the page, then bookmark.

I wish the 770 had a JVM.

My best advice to work with vnc.

Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread with a sidenote, but this is the wave of the
future... MS' proprietay file formats snd bloat can't last forever. Between Google and devices like this paired with them, the embrace of open source and open file formats, that dinosaur will either have to evolve or change drastically.

I have the same desire, to access iNotes through my company web portal. I can access iNotes, and can read email but the menus that allow for write, reply, forward, etc. do not show up. This is good if all I want to do is read mail and look at attachments, but it would be better to be able write replies, or new mail. BTW, this is also true for my desktop version of Opera too. I tried all the spoofing variations on my desktop Opera without any luck("invalid bytecode" in the frame that would allow write, reply forward, etc.).

Did you guys try the miniMo browser in the app library @ maemo.org? It's Mozilla based and might possibly fare better.