Additional Microsoft and Third-Party Components

In addition to the primary components described in the previous sections, Internet Explorer contains other Microsoft and third-party components that you can install. These additional components include the following:

• Microsoft Offline Browsing Pack - The Offline Browsing Pack enables users to view their favorite Web pages without being connected to the Internet. Offline browsing enables users to connect to the Internet periodically to download Web content, and then browse this content offline at their convenience.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Help - Internet Explorer provides a comprehensive set of Help topics that users can access to find answers to questions, troubleshoot potential problems, or get additional product information.
• Microsoft Virtual Machine - The Virtual Machine (VM) enables users to browse Web pages that contain Java-enhanced content.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Connection wizard - The Internet Explorer Connection wizard steps users through the process of signing up with and using an Internet service provider (ISP) to connect to the Internet.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer core fonts - This core set of TrueType® fonts has been optimized to provide maximum on-screen legibility.
• Dynamic HTML data binding - Data binding components allow Internet Explorer to access information from a database and display it in Web pages.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer browsing enhancements - Browsing enhancements include a graphical File Transfer Protocol (FTP) helper.
• Microsoft Windows Media Player codecs - These codecs support audio and video playback for Windows Media Player.
• DirectAnimation - This component provides animation and multimedia services for your computer, both for Web content and stand-alone products.
• Vector Graphics Rendering (VML) - This rendering tool enables users to view vector graphics images with Internet Explorer.
• AOL Art Image Format Support - This component enables you to view images from Internet Explorer that were created in AOL Art format.
• Macromedia Shockwave Director - With Director, you can create a variety of multimedia productions, including business presentations, Web content, interactive advertising pieces, Kiosk-mode productions, and CD-ROM titles.
• Macromedia Flash - Flash brings Web pages to life without the wait. Vector-based Flash movies offer compact, interactive Web interfaces, animations, buttons, advertising banners, logos, maps, cartoons, and more.
• Microsoft Web Publishing wizard - The Web Publishing wizard steps users through the process of uploading content and posting their Web site to almost any Web server available.
• Web folders - Web folders enable users to access FrontPage and Web servers for editing purposes.
• Microsoft Visual Basic® scripting support - This component provides support for viewing Web pages that use the VBScript scripting language.
• Additional Web fonts - This set of additional TrueType fonts enables users to read Web-page text that was designed for viewing with Arial, Comic, Courier, Impact, and Times New Roman fonts.
• Language auto-selection - This feature enables Internet Explorer to automatically detect the language encoding of Web pages.
• Japanese text display support - The Japanese language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Japanese text.
• Japanese text input support - The Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) allows Japanese characters to be entered as text in other language versions of Windows.
• Korean text display support - The Korean language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Korean text.
• Korean text input support - The Korean IME allows Korean characters to be entered as text in other language versions of Windows.
• Pan-European text display support - The Pan-European language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, and Baltic text.
• Chinese (traditional) text display support - The traditional Chinese language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display traditional Chinese text.
• Chinese (traditional) text input support - The traditional Chinese IME allows traditional Chinese characters to be entered as text in other language versions of Windows.
• Chinese (simplified) text display support - The simplified Chinese language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display simplified Chinese text.
• Chinese (simplified) text input support - The simplified Chinese IME allows simplified Chinese characters to be entered as text in other language versions of Windows.
• Vietnamese text display support - The Vietnamese language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Vietnamese text.
• Hebrew text display support - The Hebrew language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Hebrew text.
• Arabic text display support - The Arabic language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Arabic text.
• Thai text display support - The Thai language pack includes TrueType fonts and other support files that enable Internet Explorer to display Thai text.