Features
IE2 introduced new or improved features for its time period. Many soon became ubiquitous (such as cookies) while other features became obsolete.
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol
- HTTP cookies
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
- integrated email and news client
- SMTP and POP support
- Newsgroups (NNTP)
- spell checker
- automatic mail management (filter)
- MIME
- MAPI
- JavaScript support
- HTML3
- HTML tables
- HTML Frames element support
- nonstandard-tags as background-sounds (bgsound), text-font-tag
- RSA
- PPP network stack
- through Object Linking and Embedding-technologie support for Drag-and-drop
- Bookmark-importer for Netscape
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