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Encyclopedia > IBM Web Explorer
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IBM Web Explorer was an early web browser designed at IBM facilities in the Research Triangle Park for OS/2. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x720, 20 KB)Screenshot for IBM Web Explorer displaying the Main Page as of 24th February 2004. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x720, 20 KB)Screenshot for IBM Web Explorer displaying the Main Page as of 24th February 2004. ... Other languages FAQs | Table free Welcome to Wikipedia, the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. ... A web browser or Internet browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the largest research park in the world, and it is located near Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. ... Version 2. ...

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Name

Don't confuse it with IBM Web Browser, a later program based on Mozilla, or with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Mozilla is a computer term that has had many different uses, though all of them have been related to Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. ... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary web browser made by Microsoft and currently available as part of Microsoft Windows. ...


History

Presented in 1994 as the only native browser in OS/2, OS/2 Warp 4 (1996) included it but also a link to download an OS/2 version of Netscape Navigator 2.02, which was late for shipping on CD. IBM had already planned the substitution of Web Explorer. Netscape Navigator, also known simply as Netscape, was a proprietary web browser that was widely used. ...


Features

  • Support for HTML 3.0 (with tables).
  • Usenet reader.
  • Some of its parts were scriptable with Rexx. Some external companies used this capability to offer an enhanced browser with IBM's rendering engine.
  • A page could define what the animated throbber should look like. It was implemented through a non-standard <frame> HTML tag. OS/2 users created several animations. The latter introduction of Web frames leads Web Explorer to confusion on modern pages.
  • A presentation mode without visible menu bars.
  • A menu option Links collecting all the links in the page. It was used by IBM VoiceType for voice navigation.
  • Java applets.

In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... REXX (Restructured Extended Executor) is a programming language which was developed at IBM, and several implementations are available under open source licenses. ... This article is about HTML elements. ... A Java applet is an applet written in the Java programming language. ...

Shortcomings

Virtual hosting is a method that web servers use to host more than one domain name on the same computer and IP address. ... HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the communication protocol of the World Wide Web. ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ... JavaScript, in its more modern form, is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... PNG (Portable Network Graphics), sometimes pronounced as ping ( in IPA), is a lossless bitmap image format that is popular on the World Wide Web and elsewhere. ...

See also

The following is a list of web browsers. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. ...

External links

  • The official page at IBM (version from 1999 at the Internet Archive).
  • Last public version (1.1h) as a ZIP file.
  • IBM Web Explorer is mentioned in DOJ vs Microsoft.

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