Tip: To view this file in HTML format, with links to download and demo sites, choose Internet Explorer from the ? menu and then click "release notes."
Welcome
Internet Explorer is a World Wide Web (WWW) browser for the Macintosh. The WWW is the fastest growing component of the Internet today and the first to display styled text and graphics. In order to use a WWW browser, you will need a modem or network access, access to the Internet, and software that enables your computer to communicate with the Internet.
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Attention Beta testers:
• Be sure to delete old beta copies of Internet Explorer
• Use File/Open File to open HTML documents that your saved using Internet Explorer beta 1
• To import your Favorites list from Internet Explorer beta 2:
1. Start Internet Explorer beta 3.
2. Choose Open Favorites from the Favorites menu.
3. Click on the Desktop to make the Finder active.
4. Locate the folder System Folder/Preferences/Explorer/Favorites.
5. Double-click the folder to open it.
6. Choose Select All from the Edit menu.
7. Drag the selected files to the Internet Explorer Favorites window.
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Requirements
System Requirements
• 68030 processor or better
• System 7.0.1 and above
• 8 MB of RAM
• 2-4 MB of Hard Disk space
Access to the Internet
You must have access to the Internet through an Internet Service Provider or the network that your computer is hooked up to.
Internet software
--68k Macintosh and Power Macintosh with NuBus (such as Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100, and Performa 52xx, 62xx, 63xx):
• MacTCP (Control Panel)
• If you are a dial-up user, Config PPP or similar PPP connection software (Control Panel) with PPP (Extension)
• Thread Manager 2.0 (If you are running less than system 7.5 on a 68k machine, you will need Thread Manager 2.0. This extension will automatically be installed for you in the Extensions folder in your System folder.)
--PCI Power Macintosh (such as Power Macintosh 7200, 7500, 8500, 9500):
• Open Transport 1.0.8 or greater (Extension)
• If you are a dial-up user, Config PPP or similar PPP connection software (Control Panel) with PPP (Extension)
• TCP/IP (Control Panel)
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Latest Fixes and Features
• Support for VRML (We currently do not support textures, zooming in, web inlines, USE nodes, or VRML files compressed using gzip [.gz extension].)
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is a file format for 3D graphics that allows users to see and interact with 3D images on the Internet. Like HTML, it is platform-independent and compact. To view VRML files, you must have QuickDraw 3D 1.0.3 (available for Power Macintosh only) from Apple Computer Inc. For more information or to download QuickDraw 3D, visit http://product.info.apple.com/qd3d/Download.HTML.
• Support for plug-ins
Plug-ins are applets that developers create to add capabilities to browsers without launching external helper applications. For example, Macromedia has developed a plug-in called "Shockwave" that allows Internet Explorer to play Director files over the Internet. In order to use plug-ins, you will need to place the plug-ins that you want to use in the Plug-ins folder in the Internet Explorer application folder. You will also need to allocate more memory to Internet Explorer. For example, Macromedia recommends 8000k of memory to run Shockwave.
For more information or to download a plug-in, visit http://www.browserwatch.com/plug-in.html.
• Support for posting to newsgroups and responding to articles
• Support for Internet Config
Internet Config is a freeware system extension that allows applications to share the same preferences. You can input your e-mail address, news information, and Helper configuration information into Internet Config once, instead of in each of your Internet applications. For more information, a list of applications that support Internet Config, or to download a copy, visit http://coos.dartmouth.edu/~emk/ic/index.html
• Support for inline QuickTime without using a plug-in
Note to authors: QuickTime movies must be saved as self contained (flattened) files that are playable on non-Macintosh computers.
• Support for GIF animation
Make sure you have Reformat Document After Each Image Is Loaded selected in the Display tab in the Options dialog box when viewing GIF animations.
• Improved Favorites list now works more like the Finder
System 7.0 and 7.0.1 users will need the Dragging Enabler (Extension) in order to drag items between the Favorites window and the Finder. For more information or to download a copy, visit