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==Features== *Support for [[HTML]] 3.0 (with tables)<ref name="readme1.1h">[[Read me]] file of the Web Explorer 1.1h.</ref> *[[Newsreader (Usenet)|Usenet reader]] *Some of its parts could be reused in other programs<ref name="EDM">[http://www.edm2.com/0405/scope.html Under the Scope] section. [[EDM/2]] June 1996, Volume 4 Issue 5</ref> and scripted with [[Rexx]]. Some external companies used this capability to offer an enhanced browser with IBM's rendering engine<ref name="WebNav">[http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/multipleos/webnav.html WebNav 2.0] added user interface enhancements on WebExplorer rendering.</ref> *A page could define what the animated [[throbber]] should look like. It was implemented through a non-standard <nowiki><frame></nowiki> [[HTML tag]]. OS/2 users created several animations.<ref>{{cite web|title=hobbes.nmsu.edu |url=http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/multimedia/video/webexani |publisher=hobbes.nmsu.edu |access-date=April 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705094652/http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=%2Fpub%2Fmultimedia%2Fvideo%2Fwebexani |archive-date=July 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The later introduction of [[Framing (World Wide Web)|web frames]] leads WebExplorer to confusion on modern pages *A presentation mode without visible menu bars *A menu option ''Links'' collecting all the links in the page. It was used by [[IBM VoiceType]] for voice navigation *[[Java applet]]s<ref>{{cite web|last=Amstadt |first=Steve |title=Browser Watch β IBM OS/2 Webexplorer News! |url=http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/ibm9.html |access-date=July 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990209192948/http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/ibm9.html |archive-date=February 9, 1999 |date=December 3, 1996 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Designing Web Animation|url=http://podgoretsky.com/ftp/Docs/Internet/pdf/Designing%20Web%20Animation.pdf|publisher=[[New Riders Publishing]]|access-date=July 8, 2010|author=Nicola Brown|author2=Peter Chen |author3=David Miller |author4=Paul Van Eyk |author5=William E. Weinman |year=1996}}</ref> *[[Graphics Interchange Format|GIF]] support<ref name="readme1.1h"/> *[[Proxy server|Proxy authentication]]<ref name="readme1.1h"/> *[[Image map]]<ref name="readme1.1h"/> *''Webmap'' "hierarchically displays your complete path through the web; a pointer denotes the current site, but any site can be revisited with only a mouse click."<ref>{{cite news|title=Internet Access Tools|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yurvRCerf_UC&pg=PA168|access-date=Mar 8, 2018|work=PC Mag|issue=v.14 n.7|publisher=Ziff Davis|date=Oct 10, 1995}}</ref>
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