Preview of Upcoming Internet Technology
Last Updated March 4, 1996
This page provides a preview of upcoming Internet technologies
that will soon be integrated into the Microsoft Internet platform and
ActiveX (tm) technologies. The documents below describe technology that
is still under development, and therefore the specifications may be
subject to change. Microsoft is interested in hearing your feedback on
these specifications.
Contents:
- Microsoft support for the PICS ratings system
- Palette management in Microsoft Internet Explorer
- OLE Hyperlinking
- Asynchronous Storage
- Component Categories
Microsoft is introducing a new
Internet Ratings API to support the PICS rating system.
This document provides an overview for ICPs and Web Authoring tools
about how to support PICS ratings.
PICS
(Platform for Internet Content Selection) is the W3C group chartered
to define a standard for the creation of rating systems and
ratings information. Microsoft views PICS as the best direction
for solving the problems with minors accessing adult content on
the Internet.
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This section explains how Microsoft Internet Explorer
will allow web-page authors to
specify palettes for HTML pages. Furthermore, OLE Controls embedded within
such pages can be designed to receive notifications about palette information.
- Palettes and HTML - a new way for web-page authors
to specify the prefered palette to use when displaying a particular web page.
- Palettes and OLE Controls -
palette behaviour guidelines for
implementors of OLE Controls and OLE Control containers. The specific
behaviour of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 is also described.
- Palettes and OLE Document Objects -
palette behaviour guidelines for
implementors of OLE Document Objects and DocObj containers.
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- OLE Hyperlinks - services
and interfaces that allow new and existing applications to integrate
with each other and with Web browsers using hyperlinking navigation.
- Simple Hyperlink Navigation - a subset
of the OLE Hyperlinking specification that allows new or existing
documents and applications to support simple hyperlink navigation.
This specification describes a system API that is supported today and
that will eventually interoperate with the more complete
OLE Hyperlinking architecture described in the document above.
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The Asynchronous Storage
specification describes technology that turns existing
Compound Files technology into a flexible solution
for managing complex data over slow-link, high-latency networks.
A layout tool provides author-time control
over the download order of content streams within an OLE
Compound File.
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The Component Categories
specification describes a robust and well-defined mechanism for
categorizing COM objects
and what interface(s) and related usage they support.
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