Microsoft Wiki

Checkout our wiki's socials

READ MORE

Microsoft Wiki
Internet Explorer 4 and 5 logo svg

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 (IE4) is a graphical web browser and the fourth version of Internet Explorer. It is the successor to Internet Explorer 3 and one of the main participants of the first browser war. Its integration with Windows and distribution methods was involved in the federal antitrust case United States v. Microsoft. Launched in September 1997, IE4 was available for Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0. It was also available for HP-UX, Solaris, and classic Mac OS.

It attained over 60% market share by March 1999 when IE5 was released.

Internet Explorer 4 is no longer available for download from Microsoft. However, archived versions of the software can be found on various websites.

Features[]

IE4 came with Active Desktop, Windows Desktop Update, Active Channel, FrontPage Express, NetMeeting, NetShow, Web Publishing Wizard, Microsoft Comic Chat 2.0, and Progressive Networks RealPlayer. Outlook Express 4 replaced Internet Mail and News.

Other new features include Dynamic HTML, inline PNG, favicons, a parental rating system, and the ability to "subscribe" to a website in favorites, where it would notify the user of an update.

IE4 is one of the earliest browsers to support the UCS-2 and UTF-8 character sets.

In addition, the MSHTML (Trident) layout engine was introduced with IE4.

See also[]

References[]

External links[]

Stub
This article is a stub, an article too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject. You can help the Microsoft Wiki by expanding it.
Wikipedia
This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).