One of the most noticeable ways in which Microsoft is interacting
with the Internet is Internet Explorer, a new and exciting
Web browser that runs on Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, and the
Apple Macintosh.
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 2.0 for Windows 95, Windows NT, and the Macintosh
is freely
downloadable
from the Internet. New in this version of IE is expanded support for tables and
fonts, as well as special support for sound, AVIs, and marquees. While these features
can add exciting and compelling content to your pages, care should be taken in making
sure that they are properly used. I've prepared some
special pages that illustrate
how you can best use these features on your site.
For version 3.0, the major advancement that you will see is how closely it
supports the features that are being proposed by the
World Wide Web Consortium
as the
standards that should be supported by all browsers. This includes the new
<OBJECT> tag, as well as Cascading Style Sheets. I describe these features
and others on a page that I've prepared.
All of us have some interesting tips, tricks, and secrets on how to squeeze some
special functionality out of our HTML code. A lot of people have been sending
me e-mail regarding my pages and the features they illustrate, so I thought it was
about time that I told you a little bit about
some of the little tricks I've learned along my journey.
While you are making your plans for adding great support for Internet Explorer on
your Web pages, you should also be thinking about how to best support the Web from
within your application. Windows 95 makes this quite easy for you; take a look at
a page that I've worked up that documents how
your application can utilize "Internet shortcuts," as well as invoke the user's Web
browser directly to access information that you might have out on the Web.