Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 4.5 Macintosh Edition
Microsoft® Internet Explorer is a World Wide Web (WWW) browser for the Macintosh. The WWW is the fastest growing component of the Internet today. 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.
Page Holder makes it easy to browse from any page containing a list of links. Just place the page in the Page Holder pane by either dragging the page into the Page Holder, or clicking on the Add Button, and then click on the links to view them in the main browser window.
Print Preview and Shrink To Fit Printing
Printing a Web page in Internet Explorer 4.5 includes several new features. Viewing the Web page in Print Preview lets you choose to print the headers and footers, background, and images of the Web page. It also lets you shrink the Web page to fit, crop wide Web pages, and print wide Web pages.
Apple Sherlock Integration
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.5 supports Apple's Sherlock feature in MacOS version 8.5. By using Apple's Sherlock you can find a file based on its name or other criteria, and search the entire World Wide Web. Internet Explorer also lets you summarize a Web page to the clipboard and find other Web pages that are similar to the one that you are currently viewing.
Forms AutoFill
Forms AutoFill automatically fills out common form fields on Web pages. You only need to click a button to fill in your name, street address, email address, and other information. You supply the information once in the Preferences AutoFill dialog box, and then click the AutoFill button any time you want to fill out forms on a Web page. For more information, click "Setting up AutoFill" in Help.
Appearance Manager Support
If you are running on a Macintosh with MacOS 8.5, Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition will suport themes and sound sets.
Drag and Drop Installation with Self Healing
Drag-and-Drop Installation lets you install and launch Internet Explorer without going through a prompted installation procedure. Instead, you simply drag the application folder to the appropriate location, and then launch the application by double-clicking the Internet Explorer icon. Self-Healing allows the application to launch even without necessary system files. This is accomplished by verifying the existence of the correct version of system files at start-up time. The files that are not present will be replaced. The process is identical to the first time the program is launched (that is, the application knows to install its system files every time you launch it).
Additional Features in version 4.5
Ease of Use and Personalization
• Explorer bars give you quick access to favorites, history, search, and favorite pages
• URL AutoComplete lets you use Control and Arrow key combinations to move through the folders and files. Plus, click and hold the arrow next to the Address bar to review list of possible matches
• Toolbar styles let you customize the look of the Button bar
• Tooltips provide descriptions of browser elements
• Mac OS 8 contextual menus support increases productivity, including access to Apple's Sherlock.
• History menus on the Back and Forward buttons give you easy access to the history in the current session
• Combined Mail and News toolbar button lets you select from different mail and news options from within the browser
• Favorite and history list search support can help keep you organized
Offline features
• Cached pages are retrieved faster making the offline experience even better
• Web site archiving lets you download entire sites to your hard disk instead of the cache so that you can move the content to other computers and view the content offline
• Offline Favorites support can save you Internet connection time
Web Content Standards
• Dynamic HTML support including Document Object Model, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS1) Positioning, Dynamic styles, data binding, and dynamic content
• Enhanced scripting support provides fast, comprehensive, language-dependent script handling capability for users of ECMA-262 Script (the recently approved JavaScript standard based on JavaScript 1.1.)
• HTML 4.0 support
• Dynamic Web font embedding for improved print and Web delivery
• HTTP 1.1 support improves page download speed
International support
• Internet Explorer includes new support for Unicode by installing and relying upon Apple's Text Encoding Converter 1.3.1 (TEC) System Extension. The browser relies on TEC to properly render international characters.
Security
• Security zones divide the Internet and Intranet into trusted (safe) sites and restricted (unsafe) areas. Once zones have established, browser security defaults can be set for each zone so that you can reduce the number of security-related dialog boxes
In general, if you are experiencing difficulties accessing any page on the World Wide Web, please try one or both of the following:
Delete the Explorer folder and the MS Internet Cache folder
1. Open your hard drive, and then open the System folder.
2. Open the Preferences folder, and then drag the Explorer folder and the MS Internet Cache folder to your desktop.
3. Launch Internet Explorer again. New Explorer and MS Internet Cache folders will be automatically created.
4. To use your old favorites, open the Explorer folder on your desktop from step 2, and then drag the "favorites.html" file into the new Explorer folder (located in the Preferences folder).
5. Once you're satisfied that your browser is working properly and your favorites have been saved (they appear in the favorites window in Explorer), feel free to throw away the Explorer and MS Internet Cache folders on your desktop as they may unnecessarily consume hard drive space.
To Delete the file named "Internet Preferences"
1. Open your hard drive, and then open the System folder.
2. Open the Preferences folder, and then drag the Internet Preferences file to your desktop.
3. Launch Internet Explorer again. A new Internet Preferences file will be automatically created.
4. If you have modified your default Internet Config settings, you will need to reset them again.
Printing a Web Page that Uses Frames
Some web pages are designed using frames (subsections of the window that display different information). In order to print the information in a particular frame, click in that frame and choose Print from the File menu.
Offline Browsing
Downloading large Web sites is memory intensive and may consume a lot of disk space. Java applets and Macintosh ActiveX controls are not downloaded for offline browsing.
QuickTime and QuickTime PowerPlug
If you have QuickTime installed, Internet Explorer requires that the QuickTime PowerPlug be installed in your Extensions folder in your System folder. QuickTime extensions are available for download from http://quicktime.apple.com/.
VRML
If you are using Internet Explorer to view VRML pages, you must have QuickDraw 3D version 1.5 or later installed. QuickDraw 3D is available for download from http://quickdraw3d.apple.com/.
Plug-ins
If you experience problems viewing a page that uses plug-ins, you will most likely need to increase the memory allotted to Internet Explorer. To do so, quit Internet Explorer if it is running, select the Internet Explorer icon, and then choose Get Info from the File menu. (Make sure you select the icon for the Internet Explorer program, not an alias to the program.) Try increasing the Preferred Size to 8000K.
Map Control Panel
Some web sites (http://home.microsoft.com for example) use your current date, time, and location to deliver timely and regional information. If the Map Control Panel is not set properly, it can affect how these web sites work. You can access this by choosing Control Panels from the Apple Menu, and double-clicking on the Map Control Panel. Type in the name of your city, or a city nearby, and press the Set button.
ActiveX
Some Web pages may have ActiveX controls that have been built for the Win32 platform and don't support Mac OS. If this happens and you are unable to view the page, you can turn off the viewing of ActiveX content. To do so, choose Preferences from the Edit menu, click Web Content under Web Browser, and then clear the Enable ActiveX check box. If this fixes your problem, the ActiveX control most likely did not support Mac OS.
Note: Please be aware that in this release, Internet Explorer cannot verify the integrity of ActiveX controls. Download and use ActiveX controls from trusted servers only.
VBScript
Internet Explorer does not currently support VBScript, however, most pages use JScript. If you would like to be warned when you are viewing a page that uses VBScript:
1. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu
2. Click on "Web Content" in the lefthand column of the Preferences Window
3. Click the checkbox next to "Show unsupported Scripting launguage Errors"
4. Click "OK"
Browsing Secure Pages through a Proxy Server
Sometimes you may encounter difficulties in accessing secure web pages when browsing through a proxy server. With certain proxy servers you may be able to correct this situation (the proxy server must support tunneling):
1. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu
2. Click on "Proxies" in the lefthand column of the Preferences Window
Internet Explorer Help is available from the Help (?) menu and will give you the information you need to use the powerful features of Internet Explorer.
• Click a topic area on the left to see a list of related procedures. To open the procedures in a separate window, press and hold on the topic area link, and then choose Open Link In New Window from the menu that appears.
• Click Index to see the Index. Use the Index just as you would an index in a book.
• Click Tips & Tricks for information about a particular menu item and its keyboard shortcut.
• Internet Explorer Help is best viewed in Internet Explorer.
• To print, click in the frame that contains the information you want, and then choose Print from the File menu.
Microsoft offers technical support and services ranging from self-help tools to direct assistance with a Microsoft technical engineer. For more information on options in your area, read the file named "Support.txt" located in Internet Explorer 4.5 Folder: Help: Technical Support.
Also, included in the Technical Support folder are documents that may assist you with setting up, connecting to the Internet, as well as general troubleshooting.
You can also access Microsoft's online support resources at http://support.microsoft.com/.
Send mail to iemacbug@microsoft.com with your bugs and suggestions.
Include:
System configuration information (on the Apple menu, choose About Internet Explorer, and then click Support).
• Version of operating system
• Type of Macintosh
• Type of connection to the Internet
Steps that lead to the problem. For example:
1. Start Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2. From the File menu, choose Open.
3. Click the Cancel button.
4. Result: Nothing happens.
Any other information that will help us reproduce the bug successfully.
Although you will not receive a response via e-mail, all bug reports will be read and evaluated by the engineering team. We appreciate your feedback. Technical Support questions should not be directed to this e-mail address. Please refer to the Technical Support section of this document for more information.
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