Internet Explorer shell

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An Internet Explorer shell is any computer program (

WebBrowser control) within the graphical user interface of their software.[1]

Web browsers

These applications supplement some of the usual

MSN Explorer can be considered an Internet Explorer shell, in that it is essentially an expansion of IE with added MSN-related functionality. A more complete list of MSHTML-based browsers can be found under the list of web browsers
.

Actively maintained:

Discontinued:

Non-browser shells

Other applications that are not primarily for web browsing, such as

Intuit's Quicken and QuickBooks, AOL, Winamp, and RealPlayer
, use the rendering engine to provide a limited-functionality "mini" browser within their own user interfaces.

On Windows, components of Internet Explorer are also used in

DHTML processing abilities; they are essentially little web pages. Active Desktop
technology is another example.

MSHTML was, until Outlook 2007, also used to render HTML portions of email messages in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express email clients (Outlook 2007 now uses Microsoft Word to render HTML e-mail). This integration is an often-exploited "back door", since the Internet Explorer components make available more of the functionality within the HTML code.

Microsoft Windows also supports HTML Applications, computer programs written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and bear a .hta filename extension. They run with HTML Application Host, which is a plain Internet Explorer shell without any GUI elements around it.

See also

References

  1. MSDN: Internet Explorer. Microsoft
    . 15 August 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. ^ http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118794-page,3/article.html Archived 2008-06-05 at the Wayback Machine PC World
  3. ^ a b WindowsDevCenter.com - Power Up Internet Explorer with Three Shells
  4. ^ Rick Broida (2005). "AOL Explorer 1.1 - Review by PC Magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  5. ^ Netscape 8 and Internet Explorer's XML Rendering. IEBlog.
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