| Brief Description: | Internet Explorer 3.0 is the web browser that puts you a step ahead on the Internet! Now with ActiveX, Java, Plug-in, and the broadest HTML support, Internet Explorer 3.0 provides the bestbrowsing experience and most technically advanced development platform for end users, organizations, and content developers. And with innovative Internet conferencing, collaboration, andbrowser customization, Internet Explorer 3.0 provides the richest feature set of any browser whilestill offering an easy to use and personalized Internet experience. This document is designed to provide an informative framework for organizations and individuals to compare Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape" Navigator 3.0. Internet browsers should be compared on two levels: architecture and features. The architecture is the definitive aspect for performance, extensibility, and future features. The feature set is most important for ensuring that the browser takes advantage of the Web's rich offerings, whether it bewith respect to content viewing, security, communicating and collaborating, or personalizing the Internet experience. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 has a more advanced architecture and offers the feature superset of Netscape Navigator 3.0. Internet Explorer 3.0 is architected as a set of ActiveXª Controls. At its heart is the component object model (COM), the object model that allows programmers to mix and match languages as they flexibly program ActiveX objects and create the most compelling applications and web sites. This architecture distributes Internet capabilities to the whole desktop. Any application can easily incorporate Internet functionality by using Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control, and likewise, Internet Explorer can take advantage of any other ActiveX enabled applications. Secondly, Internet Explorer 3.0's component based architecture makes it incredibly extensible. Additional functionalities can be inserted without having to fundamentally change the code. Users only need todownload the addition to update Internet Explorer, and not another full-sized product.. |
