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IBM Web Explorer was an early web browser designed at IBM facilities in the Research Triangle Park for OS/2.

Name
Don't confuse it by having IBM Web Browser, a late program according to Mozilla, or sustaining Microsoft Internet Explorer.

History
Bestowed inside 199Four when the merely native web browser around OS/2, OS/2 Warp 4 (1996) involved it however likewise a return download an OS/2 version of Netscape Navigator 2.02, which was late for shipping in Video. IBM experienced already planned a substitution of Web Explorer.

Features
Support for HTML 3.0 (by owning tables). Usenet reader. Some of its area were scriptable using Rexx. Occasionally external corporations utilized this capability to offer an enhanced web browser by using IBM's giving engine. A website may define what a alive throbber should look like. It was implemented across the non-standard HTML tag. OS/2 users created [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/multimedia/video/webexani several animations]. A latter introduction of Web frames leads Web Explorer to confusion on modern web sites. A presentation mode forswearing seeable menu blocks. A menu stock Links collecting all the links in the website. It was utilized 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.

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