Internet Development Technologies

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:

  1. Microsoft support for the PICS ratings system
  2. Palette management in Microsoft Internet Explorer
  3. OLE Hyperlinking
  4. Asynchronous Storage
  5. Component Categories

Microsoft support for the PICS ratings system

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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Palette management in Microsoft Internet Explorer

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. Back to table of contents

OLE Hyperlinking

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Asynchronous Storage

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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Component Categories

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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