Microsoft(R) Pocket Internet Explorer Service Pack Update Release Notes, Microsoft Windows(R) CE, Handheld PC Edition Version 3.0

The following enhancements have been made:

- Consistent interpretation of security certificate expiration dates. Previously, connections may have failed to some sites immediately following a connection to a site with a different security level or if the target site has different security levels within the same site. 

- Consistent display of Web pages containing specific Japanese characters. Previously, trying to display pages containing these characters would fail. These are any characters that contain the 5c trail byte. This is not a characteristic that is apparent by looking at the character but rather it is part of the internal description for the character. One common character containing this trail byte is the Yen symbol.

- Support for displaying certain types of GIF images. Previously, these images would be distorted.

- Support for displaying 24-bpp Bitmap images. Previously, these images would not be displayed.

- Various performance improvements.