Internet Explorer is a World Wide Web (WWW) browser for the Macintosh. The WWW is the fastest growing component of the Internet today and the first to display styled text and graphics. In order to use a WWW browser, you will need a modem or network access, access to the Internet, and software that enables your computer to communicate with the Internet.
You must have access to the Internet through an Internet Service Provider or the network that your computer is hooked up to.
68k Macintosh and Power Macintosh with NuBus:
(such as Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100, and Performa 52xx, 62xx, 63xx)
PCI Power Macintosh:
(such as Power Macintosh 7200, 7500, 8500, 9500)
(We currently do not support textures, zooming in, web inlines, USE nodes, or VRML files compressed using gzip [.gz extension].)
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is a file format for 3D graphics that allows users to see and interact with 3D images on the Internet. Like HTML, it is platform-independent and compact. To view VRML files, you must have QuickDraw 3D 1.0.3 (available for Power Macintosh only) from Apple Computer Inc. For more information or to download a copy, visit QuickDraw 3D Download.
Demos
Follow these links to some great VRML pages.
Plug-ins are applets that developers create to add capabilities to browsers without launching external helper applications. For example, Macromedia has developed a plug-in called "Shockwave" that allows Internet Explorer to play Director files over the Internet. In order to use plug-ins, you will need to place the plug-ins that you want to use in the Plug-ins folder in the Internet Explorer application folder. You will also need to allocate more memory to Internet Explorer. For example, Macromedia recommends 8000k of memory to run Shockwave. For more information or to download a plug-in, visit BrowserWatch Plug-in Plaza.
Demos
Follow this link to a great site that uses plug-ins.
Internet Config is a freeware system extension that allows applications to share the same preferences. You can input your e-mail address, news information, and Helper configuration information into Internet Config once, instead of in each of your Internet applications. For more information, a list of applications that support Internet Config, or to download a copy, visit Internet Config Information.
Note to authors: QuickTime movies must be saved as self contained (flattened) files that are playable on non-Macintosh computers.
Make sure you have Reformat Document After Each Image Is Loaded selected in the Display tab in the Options dialog box when viewing GIF animations.
System 7.0 and 7.0.1 users will need the Dragging Enabler (Extension) in order to drag items between the Favorites window and the Finder. For more information or to download a copy, visit the FTP site at sam.austin.apple.com.
TIP Try searching in Yahoo on keywords such as VRML, Plug-in, Shockwave, and QuickTime for more examples.