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July 28, 2001 - Comparing IE 6 and IE 5.5

Yehuda Shiran July 28, 2001
Comparing IE 6 and IE 5.5
Tips: July 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Internet Explorer 6 improves several capabilites that were introduced in either IE5 or IE 5.5:
  • Behaviors. First introduced in IE 5. They allow you to separate content from script. Element behaviors were introduced in IE 5.5. IE 6 improves behavior's performance.
  • XML. IE 6 includes support of MSXML 3.0, providing better performance and up-to-date XML standards.
  • CSS Level 1. IE 6 provides full support for CSS Level 1.
  • Print Quality. Print Preview was introduced in IE 5.5. In IE 6, the printing model has been improved.
  • Multimedia. IE 6 supports a new version of HTML+TIME.