10 Great IE5 Features

	10 Great IE5 Features
This article covers a few of Interrnet Explorer 5.0's many new features. Here are a few more of IE's important new capabilities: 1. Select File \| Save As to save a complete Web page—the HTML and all the supporting graphics. Also, when you add a page containing multiple frames to your Favorites list, IE remembers not only the base URL of the frame set but also the specific frames that were loaded within it. 2. IE5 improves support for standards such as the Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Extensible Markup Language (XML). 3. IE5 is currently the only browser to support DHTML, DOM, CSS 2.0, PICS, XML, CDF, ActiveX, Java, and JavaScript/ECMAScript. 4. Include drop-down menus in your Web apps, without resorting to ActiveX controls, using the releaseCapture and setCapture methods and the onlosecapture event. These enable you to designate one object to trap all mouse events for the document. 5. IE5 supports "fixed" table layouts, which render tables much faster. The "fixed" table layout displays the table without calculating the minimum and maximum size of the cells. Because the extra calculation isn't needed, you can display table data on the page, even while the rest of the table loads. 6. You can embed XML into a document as data or metadata, with the entire XML Document Object Model exposed. You can intermix XML tags within the HTML document, where you can directly apply CSS properties to them, controlling their appearance. 7. Any element can take a list of CSS classes, making it much simpler to write script when different actions need to occur on a single element. 8. The new intrinsic control, <HTMLAREA>, similar to textboxes or drop-down boxes, enables developers to insert a separate HTML-enabled area into their pages where users can insert comments or any content, and embellish it with HTML. 9. It doesn't always make sense to require applications written in ActiveX or HTML to appear inside a browser. IE5 registers a new HTA (HyperText Application) file extension that launches a browser window with no surrounding browser controls or status bars. 10. IE5 has improved the error messages to provide detailed information about scripting errors, HTML structure errors, and other useful information for diagnosing application errors.

This article covers a few of Interrnet Explorer 5.0's many new features. Here are a few more of IE's important new capabilities:

1. Select File | Save As to save a complete Web page—the HTML and all the supporting graphics. Also, when you add a page containing multiple frames to your Favorites list, IE remembers not only the base URL of the frame set but also the specific frames that were loaded within it.

2. IE5 improves support for standards such as the Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Extensible Markup Language (XML).

3. IE5 is currently the only browser to support DHTML, DOM, CSS 2.0, PICS, XML, CDF, ActiveX, Java, and JavaScript/ECMAScript.

4. Include drop-down menus in your Web apps, without resorting to ActiveX controls, using the releaseCapture and setCapture methods and the onlosecapture event. These enable you to designate one object to trap all mouse events for the document.

5. IE5 supports "fixed" table layouts, which render tables much faster. The "fixed" table layout displays the table without calculating the minimum and maximum size of the cells. Because the extra calculation isn't needed, you can display table data on the page, even while the rest of the table loads.

6. You can embed XML into a document as data or metadata, with the entire XML Document Object Model exposed. You can intermix XML tags within the HTML document, where you can directly apply CSS properties to them, controlling their appearance.

7. Any element can take a list of CSS classes, making it much simpler to write script when different actions need to occur on a single element.

8. The new intrinsic control, <HTMLAREA>, similar to textboxes or drop-down boxes, enables developers to insert a separate HTML-enabled area into their pages where users can insert comments or any content, and embellish it with HTML.

9. It doesn't always make sense to require applications written in ActiveX or HTML to appear inside a browser. IE5 registers a new HTA (HyperText Application) file extension that launches a browser window with no surrounding browser controls or status bars.

10. IE5 has improved the error messages to provide detailed information about scripting errors, HTML structure errors, and other useful information for diagnosing application errors.