Internet Explorer 4.0 is one of the many Internet Explorer Versions that have seen the light of the day, were meant to revolutionize the way the world was used to the web browser. Formerly such web browsers as Erwise, ViolaWWW, Mosaic, Netscape Navigator had done well in the early 90's. But with the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 1.0 in 1995 saw the monopoly of the browser market for a while as because Microsoft Internet Explorer Installation came for free. Soon Internet explorer gave Netscape Navigator a tough competition and although navigator was made free after a while, Internet Explorer rules the market even to his day.
Internet Explorer 4.0 was designed specially for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 machine. To compete with the Netscape Navigator Browser, it constantly ensured enhanced facilities of the browser for it to be user friendly to the general public.
The Special Features of Internet Explorer 4.0 were:
• Adjustable font sizes, colors, and font styles of Web pages allows you to view the web content how to view it.
• Adjustable Document formatting on screen. You can do this by installing your preferred The ability to install your own style sheet so you can control how documents are formatted on the screen.
• Sound alert systems to notify you when the downloading process begins and ends.
• Display of animations is your choice.
• Supplementary feed back available.
• The Web page authors have the independence to add data.
• AutoComplete facility completes half typed lengthy URLs.
• The ability to disable smooth scrolling and other effects that can confuse screen reading utilities.
The Internet Explorer 4.0 launched in August 1997 had several variations preceding and succeeding it as the Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview 1.0 (PP1), Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview 2.0 (PP2), Internet Explorer 4.0, Internet Explorer 4.01, Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1 (Windows 98), Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2 .
