Tools to Protect Your Privacy
Web Privacy Tools Gives you tools to protect your privacy and allows you to control the personal information Web sites collect about you. These tools support the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), a technology under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Reliability You Can Count On
Fault Collection Enables users to extract information about an Internet Explorer problem and upload the data to Microsoft for analysis. This information can help identify potential issues Microsoft needs to address in future Internet Explorer Service Packs.
Flexibility to Experience the Web the Way You Want
Image Toolbar Allows you to quickly and easily save, e-mail, and print 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.
Media Bar 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.
Auto Image Resize If pictures are too large to display in the browser window, the new automatic picture resizing feature resizes the pictures so they fit within the dimensions of the browser window.
New Intelligent Design
Updated Browser Look With Microsoft® Windows® XP New stylized buttons in the browser toolbar, more colorful menu background and toolbar areas. Directly integrates the Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional look into all visual aspects of the browser window, including dialog boxes, menus, scroll bars, list boxes, and toolbars.
Outlook® Express 6.0 An updated version of Internet Explorer 6 e-mail component, Microsoft Outlook Express 6. This version includes new security features that can help protect your computer from harmful e-mail and blocks potentially harmful attachments.
Develop Rich Web-Based Applications Quickly and Easily
The Internet Explorer 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 World-Wide Web Consortium (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.
Java VM Java applets run in Internet Explorer 6 (a component of Windows XP) just as they run in older versions of Internet Explorer. The Java VM is not installed as part of the typical installation, but is installed on demand when a user encounters a page that uses a Java Applet. For more information see the Microsoft Technologies for Java Web site.