Table of contents

1. Introduction
   
   1.1  System Requirements
   
   1.2  Installation
   
   
2. Features Arabic Support
   
   2.1  Browsing multi-language Web sites
   
   2.2  Websites encoding and Arabic language
   
   
3. International Domain Names
   
   3.1  Tabbed Browsing
   
   3.2  Quick Tabs
   
   3.3  Favorites Center
   
   3.4  RSS Feeds
   
   3.5  Page Zoom
   
   
4. Search experience
   
   4.1  Searching over the internet
   
   4.2  Arabic text search inside a webpage
   
   4.3  Match diacritic
   
   4.4  Match kashida
   
   4.5  Match aleph hamza
   
   
5. Related Links
   

Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 7.0 to make it easy for the end user to search, browse, download, zoom, receive RSS feeds, view multiple sites in one window and organize the favorite sites by using the Favorites Center.

Internet Explorer 7.0 is built in Windows Vista and below is the minimum requirements your computer needs to run Internet Explorer 7 with other operating systems

Note: Internet Explorer 7.0 Installation does not support cross language Installation, Internet Explorer 7.0 language has to be the same as the Operating System Language.

Some Web sites offer their content in several languages. To view these pages in your preferred language, you can add languages to your list of languages in Internet Explorer, if you speak several languages; you can arrange them according to their priority. If a Web site offers multiple languages, content will appear in the language that has the highest priority.

Most Web pages contain information that tells the browser what language encoding (the language and character set) to use. If the page does not include that information, and you have the Language Encoding Auto-Select feature on, Internet Explorer can usually determine the appropriate language encoding, sometimes Internet Explorer cannot determine the appropriate language encoding so you will need to set it manually.

• On the "Page " menu in Internet Explorer,


• Point to "Encoding" then make sure "Auto-Select" check mark is marked.

Internet Explorer 7 supports navigating to Uniform Resource Locator (URLs) written in users' native languages e.g. Arabic language which is critical for making the Internet truly international. Internet Explorer 7 permits navigation to Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) composed of Unicode characters from all of the world's languages Including Arabic language. IDN relies upon a standardized mechanism known as "Puny code" for encoding Unicode domain names using only the ASCII characters that are permitted by the global DNS system.

Browsing allows users to easily switch from one website to another inside one Internet explorer Window by clicking the tabs at the top of the webpage frame which supports displaying Arabic titles and the Arabic text inside the web pages which is rendered correctly.

Quick tabs is one of Tabbed Browsing features which allows an easy thumbnail preview for all opened tabs in a single window, Quick tabs previews the Arabic websites titles and content correctly in the thumbnail preview.

Favorites Center supports the Arabic language in all its components (to Favorites, Tab Groups, Browsing History, and RSS Feed subscriptions) the user can add Arabic titles and descriptions in the favorite's components.

detects RSS Feeds on sites by illuminating an icon on the toolbar. A single click on the icon allows the user to preview and optionally subscribe to the site’s feed, then be automatically notified as content is updated. Read RSS Feeds directly in the browser, scan for important stories, and filter your view with search terms or site-specific categories; RSS supports Arabic language by default in all its features.

This feature allows the Arabic users to magnify the Arabic text where users can magnify both text and graphics for a better view and browsing experience.

Internet Explorer 7.0 supports searching for Arabic where users can write any Arabic text in the search box and click on the search icon or press enter and search will be done using the defined default web search engine

Internet Explorer allows the user to search for the text inside the webpage, this can be done using the Find dialog (can be opened by clicking on Edit->Find (On this page) from the Internet Explorer Menu or by the shortcut key CTRL+F), By default Internet Explorer ignores diacritics, kashida , aleph hamza above, aleph hamza below, and aleph madda while searching for Arabic text in the web page, you can specific the Arabic text search from the find dialog with the following options:

Specifies whether you want Internet Explorer to match kashida (tatweel) characters when searching for an Arabic text.

Specifies whether you want Internet Explorer to match aleph characters with hamza or madda when searching for an Arabic text.

For example, if you want to find a word that begins with aleph and specified "match aleph hamza", then the word will not be matched if it begins with aleph hamza above, alef hamza below, or aleph madda. If it is specified, you must enter the correct form of aleph for a match.