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An Internet Explorer shell is computer software that uses the Trident rendering engine of Internet Explorer. Although the term Trident shell is probably more accurate for describing these applications, including Internet Explorer itself, the term Internet Explorer shell or IE shell is in common parlance. This means that these software products are not actually full-fledged web browsers, but are simply an alternate interface for Internet Explorer. They share the bugs and security vulnerabilities of the Trident engine. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer, abbreviated MSIE), and commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ...
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Trident (also known as MSHTML) is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. ...
A layout engine, or rendering engine, is a software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc) and displays the formatted content on the screen. ...
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer, abbreviated MSIE), and commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ...
A web browser is a software package that enables a user to display and interact with documents hosted by web servers. ...
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Some of the more popular Internet Explorer shells include the following:
These applications supplement some of Internet Explorer's usual user interface components for browsing, adding features such as popup blocking and tabbed browsing. MSN Explorer could also be considered an Internet Explorer shell, in that it is essentially an expansion of IE with added MSN-related functionality. A more complete list of Trident-based browsers can be found under the list of web browsers AOL Explorer 1. ...
Avant Browser is a popular freeware web browser which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows (see Internet Explorer shell) with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsofts Internet Explorer (IE). ...
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Foxie is an Internet Explorer shell, meaning it uses the Trident rendering engine used in Internet Explorer, its stated purpose is to bridge the gap between Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox essentially installing a selected set of Firefox features that work on top of Internet Explorer instead of installing...
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NetCaptor NetCaptor is an alternative interface for the Windows version of Internet Explorer. ...
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Epiphany using Gecko to render the Wikipedia main page Gecko is the open source, free software web browser layout engine used in all Mozilla-branded software and its derivatives, including later Netscape releases. ...
SlimBrowser screenshot Slimbrowser is a tabbed multiple-site web browser that uses the Microsoft Trident rendering engine. ...
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The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...
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Wikipedia on MSN Explorer MSN Explorer is a web browser, developed by Microsoft, which comes with Windows XP that integrates MSN features such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger with a web browser. ...
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Non-browser shells Other applications that aren't primarily for web browsing, such as Intuit's Quicken and QuickBooks, AOL, Winamp, and RealPlayer, use the rendering engine to provide a limited-functionality "mini" browser within their own user interfaces. Intuit Inc. ...
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Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, a subsidiary of Time Warner. ...
RealPlayer, briefly known also as RealOne Player, is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo codecs. ...
On Windows, components of Internet Explorer are also used in Windows Explorer, the operating system shell that provides the default file system browsing and desktop services. For example, folder views in Windows Explorer on versions of Windows prior to Windows XP utilize IE's DHTML processing abilities; they are essentially little web pages. Active Desktop technology is another example. In Windows XP and later versions, the DirectUI engine is used instead. [1] Windows Explorer running on Windows Vista Windows Explorer running on Windows XP Windows Explorer is an application that is part of modern versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. ...
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Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
Dynamic HTML or DHTML designates a technique of creating interactive web sites by using a combination of the static markup language HTML, a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript) and the style definition language Cascading Style Sheets. ...
Active Desktop is a feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4. ...
The Trident engine was, until recently also used to render HTML portions of email messages in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express email clients (Outlook 2007 now uses Microsoft Word to render HTML e-mail). This integration, while convenient, is an often-exploited "back door," since the Internet Explorer components make available more functionality to the HTML code than some feel should be permitted in the context of email messages, and Outlook and Outlook Express have, historically, not done enough to prevent malicious code from taking advantage of that functionality. The latest updates for Outlook Express, which require Windows XP and are distributed with Service Pack 2, are intended to improve this situation. Outlook 2003 already includes many of the updates. HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ...
Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ...
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An email client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail. ...
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Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
While all of these programs can customize Internet Explorer's user interface and extend the feature set, they cannot modify the rendering engine, and are therefore subject to many of the same benefits and vulnerabilities of IE, including security holes and issues with rendering.
HTA is a method developed by Microsoft to open up HTML files in a window free of navigation and other interface elements. HTA (HTML Applications) is a a user interface markup language originated by Microsoft. ...
Shell-like extensions to IE In addition to programs using Internet Explorer’s rendering engine, there are also programs that add features to Internet Explorer. The methods they use to add features can blur the distinction between a shell, plug-in, or toolbar. Examples include the following: - IEWatch [1], which provides diagnostic panes for monitoring HTTP traffic, HTTP search and filtering, HTTP performance charts and the ability to view the DOM and quickly modify the HTML, style sheets and scripts of any web page to test code.
- PageEngage [2] an HTTP analysis tool which allows a user to view all HTTP headers, provides a script console for fully interacting with the Document Object Model of IE, and additionally provides the user the ability to modify the response content before the browser renders it.
- iMacros [3], is a web macro recorder enhancement, that adds record & replay and VBA support to IE.
- Kimba Kano, which adds a context menu option to do various kinds of web searches for a currently highlighted term
- HttpWatch [4], is an HTTP sniffer and debugger for Internet Explorer that displays information about headers, cookies, redirection and compression
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