Once a daily companion, it has now been taken down
The first-ever search engine to take the world by storm is Internet Explorer. Developed by computer software giant Microsoft, the Internet Explorer gave the millennial generation something to look forward to and bring the world just a click away. Introduced in the summer of 1994, Internet Explorer for over a decade has been an integral part of the internet and the lives all over the world. But with the advancement of technology, the Explorer soon was neglected. And finally, the makers decided to remove Internet Explorer forever after being in our lives for over two decades. Here are some interesting and fun facts about Internet Explorer.
The Internet Explorer project was started in 1994 by Thomas Reardon. The first version was called Microsoft Internet Explorer and was launched as part of the Internet Jumpstart Kit in the Microsoft Plus! pack for Windows 95. And since its launch then, a total of 11 versions of Internet Explorer were released by Microsoft. The 11th version was the last version of Internet Explorer to be released by Microsoft.
The development of the Internet Explorer began with a team of about six people and initially, it was a chargeable service.
The code for Internet Explorer was ‘O’Hare’, a reference to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
The Internet Explorer has always been laid with the software of DOCTYPE sniffing to choose between standards mode and a quirks mode – wherein the Explorer mimics the nonstandard behaviours of old versions of MSIE for HTML and CSS rendering on screen. In fact, the Internet Explorer also provides its own dialect of ECMAScript called JScript.
Interestingly, the Internet Explorer also introduced multiple extensions to JScript, which were adopted by other browsers. These are innerHTML property, the XMLHttpRequest object, and the designMode attribute of the content document object.
Internet Explorer also introduced the favicon - short for favourites icon, which is also supported and used by other browsers.
This feature allows web pages to specify a 16-by-16 pixel image for use in bookmarks. While in I.E., it is in the Windows ICO format, in other browsers, other types of images such as PNG and GIF.
The internal structure of Internet Explorer used a componentized architecture that was built on the Component Object Model (COM) technology.
For security, Internet Explorer uses a zone-based security framework. The functioning group sites were based on a certain condition such as is it an Internet- or intranet-based site.
