Ibm Web Explorer

Name

History

Features

• Support for HTML 3.0 (with tables).
• Usenet reader.
• Some of its parts were scriptable with Rexx. Some external companies used this capability to offer an enhanced browser with IBM's rendering engine.
• A page could define what the animated throbber should look like. It was implemented through a non-standard <frame> HTML tag. OS/2 users created several animations. The latter introduction of Web frames leads Web Explorer to confusion on modern pages.
• A presentation mode without visible menu bars.
• A menu option Links collecting all the links in the page. It was used by IBM VoiceType for voice navigation.
• Java applets.

Shortcomings

• No web frames.
• No redirections.
• No virtual hosts.
• No HTTPS.
• No plugins.
• No JavaScript.
• No PNGs.
• No progressive JPEGs.

See also

• List of web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers

External links

• The official page at IBM (version from 1999 at the Internet Archive).
• Last public version (1.1h) as a ZIP file.
• IBM Web Explorer is mentioned in DOJ vs Microsoft.

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