I still remember waiting for images to load. In 1998, no one was getting the gigabit speeds that we see now. After all, all of our software is downloaded.
Today, it would be unimaginable for an operating system to ship without a web browser. Released in September 1997 for Windows, January 1998 for Mac, and March 1998 for Unix, Internet Explorer is when the so-called browser wars really started to heat up. Frames was a way to essentially render two webpages in one, so you would have one frame as a navigation bar and one frame for content, so when you clicked a link in navigation, only the content would have to load. Also there was support for ActiveX and frames, stuff that you really don’t hear about anymore.
One thing that was added in IE3 was support for CSS, or Cascading Stylesheets.
While Internet Explorer 2 was the first version to be supported on Macs, this was the first one to be bundled with Macs, and that came with Mac OS 8.Īt this point, IE was still trying to catch up to Netscape, and it’s where competition between the two started to heat up. It was also the first version of the browser that I used personally, although more specifically, that was Internet Explorer 3.02. Internet Explorer 3įast-forward to August 13, 1996, as that’s when Internet Explorer 3 was released. IE9 is back, better than ever.Internet Explorer 9 wants to be a weel-known web browser again.Internet Explorer 2.1 arrived for Mac in April 1996, and it had support for embedding AVI, QuickTime, AIFF, MIDI, and WAV files in webpages. It's a mix of all those good features we can find on other web browsers like Chrome, Firefox or Opera. in short,Microsoft has seen the advantages of other web browsers and has decided to change its point of view. Now it offers one very similar to he one we find in Firefox.Īnew tab system, someting similar to Speed Dial. This new IE9offers the posibility to add websites to Windows taskbar,very similar to web applications by Chrome. Internet Explorer 9 also breaks XP limits, because it's only compatible with the recent versions of windows to ensure optimum performance. It is the resposibility of a new Javascript engine and a faster and more powerful renderization to lead this new IE to be among the best web browsers again. In this new version, Microsoft wants to end up with web standards compatibility problems and it supports for HTML5 and CSS3. After having viewed how all competitors have renewed their look and feel and engines and are now getting better and better, Microsoft has decided to update Internet Explorer.
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