Internet Explorer 6 SP1 Features
|
Learn more about the Internet Explorer features that simplify the daily tasks that you perform online, help you to maintain the privacy of your personal information on the Web, and make Internet Explorer 6 a reliable and flexible Web browsing experience with enhanced privacy features.
| Tools to Help You Protect Your Privacy and Browse More Safely | |
Help to protect your privacy online by managing cookies. Internet Explorer 6 provides a range of options for accepting and restricting cookies. | |
Provide different levels of security for different areas of the Web to help protect your computer. Internet Explorer 6 divides your Internet world into four zones with varying security levels: Internet, Local Intranet, Trusted Sites, and Restricted Sites. You can assign Web sites to any of these zones and tailor the security levels to your own preferences. | |
Helps screen out objectionable content by using industry-standard ratings that have been defined independently by the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) committee. | |
| Reliability You Can Count On | |
Offers users the option to extract information about an Internet Explorer 6 fault and upload the data to Microsoft for analysis. This information can help identify potential issues Microsoft needs to address in future Internet Explorer 6 Service Packs. | |
| Flexibility to Experience the Web the Way You Want | |
Allows you to quickly and easily save, e-mail, and print your pictures from your Web page, as well as view all your saved pictures in the My Pictures folder. When you point to pictures on Web pages, the Image toolbar appears giving instant access to My Pictures functions. | |
Provides a user interface for locating and playing media within the browser window. You can play music, video, or mixed-media files without opening a separate window. You can also control the audio volume, choose which media files or tracks to play, and access different media on your computer or on the Microsoft WindowsMedia.com Web site. | |
Resizes pictures that are too large to display in the browser window so they fit within the dimensions of the window. | |
Put Web sites you visit often within easy reach. That way, you don't have to remember or type anything. Just click your mouse twice—and there you are. As your list of favorite pages grows, you can organize them by moving them into subfolders. | |
Makes it easy to find and return to Web sites and pages you've visited in the past. Whether it's today or a few weeks ago, the History list can record pages you’ve visited, so it's easy to go back later on. | |
Lets you see the page you're about to print at a glance or zoom in for a closer look so you’ll know exactly what to expect when you print Web pages. | |
Saves you time by automatically remembering information that you've recently typed, such as Web addresses, information in forms, and search queries. | |
Helps you tracking down information on the Web. Internet Explorer's built-in search feature, Search Companion, makes searching the Internet faster and simpler than ever. | |
Provides options so you can change your Web browsing layout to suit the way you work. Add and remove buttons on the toolbar, increase Web page viewing space, and create a custom toolbar layout. | |
| New Intelligent Design | |
Updated Browser Look with Windows XP | Integrates the look of the Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional operating systems into all visual aspects of the browser window, including dialog boxes, menus, scroll bars, list boxes, and toolbars. Also includes new stylized buttons in the browser toolbar and more colorful menu background and toolbar areas. |
Outlook Express 6 | Includes new security features that can help protect your computer from harmful e-mail and helps block potentially harmful attachments. Outlook Express 6 is an updated version of the Internet Explorer 6 e-mail component. |
| Develop Rich Web-based Applications Quickly and Easily | |
Internet Explorer 6 DHTML Platform | Provides DHTML features to build a powerful user interface for your Web based applications. Includes the developer features in Internet Explorer 5.5, including significant enhancements to the support for key Web standards. |
Full CSS Level 1 Support | Provides full support for Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1 (CSS1) including borders, padding, and margins which are now supported for inline elements. It also adds dotted and dashed border effects to your HTML documents, the ability to lay out articles in the same style used by newspapers and magazines, and display text vertically on Web pages. |
Full DOM Level 1 Support | Provides enhanced support for standards-based applications and development of informative content for users. Fully compliant with the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1, an interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update document content, structure, and style without platform or language restrictions. |
Enhanced SMIL 2.0 Multimedia Support | Provides continued support for the developing Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 2.0 in progress at the W3C, most notably in the area of transitions, allowing the application of filters and effects, such as fading an image, transitioning between text or media elements by using wipes, and applying a graduated color background to an element, all at designated times, without the need for script. |
Content-Restricted IFrames | IFrames display HTML content to provide Web-based e-mail applications or build browser applications. Developers can make it more difficult for malicious authors to launch e-mail or content-based attacks that catch users unaware. |
Mouse Wheel Events | Introduces a new set of events related to the use of the mouse wheel. These events enable your content or application to better react to user input. |
XML | Includes support for Microsoft XML (MSXML) 3.0, providing better performance and up-to-date XML standards support. |
.NET Integration | As part of the WebService behavior, makes integration of server and client side code easier, and enables applications to call functions on the server asynchronously. You can use this behavior to avoid page navigations and to retrieve data from the server using XML and SOAP. |
Automatic Ellipses for Text Overflow | Provides support for ellipses when text content overflows the bounds of its container. Microsoft is working with the CSS Working Group at the W3C to incorporate this functionality in future enhancements to the CSS specification. |
