Internet Explorer 5. O

We trust that you enjoyed the hands-on exercise and that you completed it with­out difficulty. Our objective was to get you up and running as quickly as possible so that you could experience the Web and appreciate its potential. Internet Explorer 5.0 (IE5) is easy to use because it is a Windows-based program that fol­lows the common user interface. The next several pages examine Internet Explorer in more detail to help you use the program effectively.

Figure 2a displays the home page of Microsoft Corporation as it appears with the default settings of Internet Explorer. Figure 2b displays a different view of the same page (the address is the same in both figures) in order to illustrate additional features within Internet Explorer. The most obvious difference betweenthe two is the display or omission of the graphics, which enhance the appearance of a page, but increase the time it takes to download the page and display it on your PC. The presence or absence of the graphics is controlled through the Inter­net Options command in the Tools menu, one of several pull-down menus within Internet Explorer.