Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser has turned 15 years old

August 15, 1995 Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 1, which was based on a Spyglass Inc., program called Mosaic, which Microsoft licensed from the company. The browser wasn't launched with Windows 95, but was part of the Windows 95 Plus Pack.

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HTML 5 in Internet Explorer

In brief: How to make the new HTML 5 tags work with Internet Explorer.

Web developers cry happily looking at HTML 5, which has finally arrived. Though most of its features, such as WebGL, multiple streams, and web sockets, are not yet supported by some browsers, we can already use its new, handy tags.

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Displaying PNG in IE

Task: Display PNG images with transparency in IE.
Answer: Suggested below is a several step technique for preparing images for web. It enables to reduce file size and display PNG fairly well in IE lower or equal to 5.5. Drawbacks: complexity and limited palette of GIF colors.

How it looks in a browser:


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