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Microsoft takes the Internet Seriously. 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 Consortiuminternet link 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.

Robert B. Hess
roberth@microsoft.com
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA, 98052-6399

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