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Stuff: Internet Explorer 5.0About ThisStuffBY MICHAEL TSAI, MTSAI@ATPM.COMInternet Explorer 5.0Company: Microsoft CorporationWeb: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/default.aspPrice: free or $10 on CD-ROM (including shipping)Requirements: Power Macintosh with Mac OS 7.6.1 or later, 8 MB of available RAM, QuickTime 3.0 or later, MRJ2.1 or later.In the last week of March, with the Windows version already more than a year old 1 ,Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition. Judging by the response, IE 5 wasthe most hotly anticipated software product so far this year. After releasing IE 4.0 in January1998 and IE 4.5 in January 1999, Microsoft was clearly targeting this year’s San FranciscoMacworld Expo for the unveiling of its latest browser. But as is often the case with software,development took longer than expected, and Microsoft wisely chose to delay the releaseuntil it was finished. Even so, IE 5 contains numerous bugs, and Microsoft apparently didnot have time to finish work on the Media Toolbar that its own IE 5 pre-release site toutedearlier this month. IE 5 boasts an all-new rendering engine, standard support for 128-bitencryption, a colorful new look, enhanced usability, and new features such as an auctionsmanager and a scrapbook. I’ll examine each of these in turn, but let’s start from the beginning.InstallationInstallation of IE 5 is easy. You double-click the self-mounting disk image and drag theMicrosoft Internet 5 folder to your hard drive. The first time you launch IE, it automaticallycopies some shared libraries and fonts to your System Folder. My machine contained someMicrosoft Web fonts from an IE 4.5 installation, and while updating these the IE 5 installerdid not ask me before it added additional fonts that I had specifically deleted from IE 4.5. Onanother machine with no previous IE installation, it was nice enough to ask whether I1. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2227998,00.htmlATPM 6.04 ← 91 →Stuff: Internet Explorer 5.0