The Web gets more exciting every day as Web pages incorporate new multimedia capabilities such as movies, sounds, animations, and 3-D worlds. Internet Explorer 4.0 supports all the latest multimedia standards—including the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 2.0—and makes viewing multimedia over the Internet faster and more fun.

Web developers will find it's now easier than ever to use multimedia effects to create compelling and interactive Web pages. Internet Explorer 4.0's new Dynamic HTML multimedia technology makes it easy to add filters and transitions to pages, create effects that work on a timer, and alter the surface of a bitmap. In addition, Internet Explorer 4.0 adds the following to help Web authors build more multimedia content into their pages:

• Dynamic HTML Multimedia. A set of new controls that make it easy to add exciting multimedia effects to Web pages that download quickly.
• Interactive Music Control. A new control that can create music that responds to a user's actions—instantly!
• ActiveMovie Control. A control that provides cross-platform video and audio technology.
• NetShow. Broadcast multimedia events over the Internet or a corporate intranet with this powerful technology.