Internet Explorer 4 Browsing and Beyond Author:Dave Johnson Internet Explorer 4 is not just another Web broswer-it's the first step toward a desktop computing environment that mimics the Internet in such a way that the browser becomes the operating system. Dave Johnson explains the browser/desktop paradigm and presents IE4's new features and how best to use them in understandable and friendly text. The m... more »arket is glutted with books which explain how to use IE's features to browse. This book goes far beyond that, and explains how to optimize IE4 in every way. Readers will learn how to get ActiveX components from the Internet, maximize web-surfing sessions, use the new SmartFavorites feature (a "bot" that searches the web for you), take advantage of IE4's mail and newsgroup reader, use IE4 with Microsoft Outlook, and get the absolute most out of the Internet and web. Coverage also includes installation and configuration options, using the browser as the desktop environment to manage files and run programs, creating web pages with IE4, and using ActiveX tools and using HTML within the browser.« less