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Directory of Sites and Resources

To help you make the most of this book, the authors have collected the following list of Web sites explaining or demonstrating the advanced features of Internet Explorer. A number of our favorite sites that don't focus specifically on Internet Explorer are also included, as are most of the sites used as examples in the book.

You can type the URL addresses into Internet Explorer's Location box, or you can access all of the sites listed here through live links on the Internet Explorer 3 Unleashed CD-ROM. (Open the appsfram.htm document.)

ActiveX

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/appdev/controls/default.htm

Download the ActiveX controls and visit Microsoft's ActiveX gallery

http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/sdk/

ActiveX Software Development Kit

http://nihal02.cdc.deakin.edu.au/cdcsoft/emadweb/xtest.htm

ActiveX demo page

http://www.sky.net/~toma/faq.htm

ActiveX FAQ

http://www.outrider.com/showcase/showcase.htm

Outrider ActiveX showcase

Art Museums and Galleries

http://www.art.net/

Art on the Net

http://linex.com/mdhand/artGallery.html

3D Gallery

http://www.initiative.com/virtual.html

Virtual Museum

http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/

The Web Museum

http://wwar.com/index.html

World Wide Arts Resources

Audio Players

http://www.buddy.org/softlib.html

The Buddy Sound Editor Software Library

http://www.realaudio.com

RealAudio

http://www.xingtech.com

Streamworks Audio

http://www.vocaltec.com/iwave.htm

Iwave

http://www.dspg.com

TrueSpeech

http://www.prs.net/midi.html

MidiGate

Audio Sites

http://www.music.sony.com/Music/SoundClips/index.html

Sony Music clips

http://www.iuma.com

Internet Underground Music Resource

http://www.audionet.com

AudioNet

http://www.rockweb.com

RockWeb

http://www.prs.net/midi.html

The Classical Music MIDI Archive

Books and Magazines

http://www.promo.net/pg/

Project Gutenberg: Electronic versions of classic texts

http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html

Internet Book Information Center: An electronic book club

Macmillan Publishing: Shop for computer books, cookbooks, and more right here

http://www.zdnet.com/~pccomp/

PC Computing: This popular computer magazine is now on the Web

http://pathfinder.com/

Pathfinder: Links to many popular magazines, including Time and Sports Illustrated

Business

http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/intelligent.agent/index.html

The Challenges of Electronic Commerce

http://www.cbot.com

Chicago Board of Trade

http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/survey/index.html

Defining the Internet Opportunity

http://www.edgeonline.com/

Entrepreneurial Edge Online

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/

Internal Revenue Service: Find answers to your tax questions and download tax forms

http://www.tig.com/cgi-bin/genobject/ibcindex

The Internet Business Center

http://www.hoaa.com/

SoHo Central (Home Office Center): Visit this site to learn more about working out of your home

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cd4v/graph/StockGraph.html

Stock Trace

http://update.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal

http://www.net101.com/reasons.html

20 reasons to put your business on the Web

CGI and Perl

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/cgi/overview.html

CGI 1.1 specs

http://home.mcom.com/newsref/std/server_api.html

NSAPI specs

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-03.html

Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0 specification

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTRESP.html

Status codes

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html

CGI 1.1 specification

http://www.best.com:80/~hedlund/cgi-faq/new/faq.1-basic.html

CGI FAQ

http://www.boutell.com/cgic/

cgic: An ANSI C library for CGI programming

http://www.city.net/win-httpd/httpddoc/wincgi.htm

Windows CGI 1.1 description

http://solo.dc3.com/wsdocs/32demo/windows-cgi.html

Windows CGI 1.3 (for reference only)

http://solo.dc3.com/vb4cgi.html

VB 4.0 (32-bit) CGI examples

http://www.wolfenet.com/~rniles/cgi.html

The CGI collection

http://solo.dc3.com/db-src/index.html

VB4/Access CGI programming

http://home.netscape.com/comprod/server_central/config/nsapi.html

Netscape API functions

http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/nsapi_vs_cgi.html

NSAPI versus the CGI interface

http://www.netscape.com/assist/support/server/tn/index.html

Technical notes on CGI: Server-Side Includes and NSAPI

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html

Server-Side Includes (SSI)

http://web.sau.edu/~mkruse/www/info/ssi.html

Server-Side Includes Tutorial

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Languages/Perl/

YAHOO! – Perl

http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/

Perl FAQ

http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~rseymour/perl/

Perl resources

http://info.hip.com/ntperl/man-pages/ntperl5.htm

Windows NT Perl 5

http://www.phlab.missouri.edu/perl/perlcourse.html

Introduction to Perl: Learn Perl in two hours

http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/perlWWW/

perlWWW – Earl Hood's extensive Perl collection

http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/perl/perl.html

Perl reference materials

Education

http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~dennisl/CMS.html

CyberSpace Middle School

http://www.tc.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Kids.on.Campus/top.pl

Kids on Campus Internet Tour: Spur interest about computers and the Internet in students from third to fourth grade

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/insite/

InSITE: A great place for teachers to learn how to use the Internet in their classrooms

http://sln.fi.edu/

Franklin Institute Virtual Science Museum

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

NASA's K–12 Initiative

Entertainment and Leisure

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/index.html

CIA World Factbook

http://www.comcentral.com/com-menu.htm

Comedy Central

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics

The Comic Strip

http://www.twentymule.com/Fortune.acgi

Daily Fortune

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/

Dilbert Comic Strip

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/drfun

Dr. Fun

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Exploratorium Home Page

http://www.film.com

Film.com

http://hollywood.com/

Hollywood Online

http://www.msstate.edu/Movies/

Internet Movie Database – U.S. mirror site

http://moonmilk.volcano.org/

Moonmilk (How'd they do that??)

http://movieweb.com/movie.html

Movieweb

http://web3.starwave.com/showbiz

Mr. Showbiz

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Home Page

http://netboy.com

NetBoy

http://www.nbc.com/entertainment/shows/seinfeld/index.html

NBC's Seinfeld Page

http://www.scifi.com

Sci-Fi Channel: The Dominion

http://www.si.edu/

Smithsonian Institution Home Page

http://www.cs.curtin.edu.au/~squizz/cryptics.html

Squizz's Cryptic Crosswords

http://www.netshop.net/Startrek/web/

Star Trek

http://tvnet.com/

TV Net

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/webtravel/

Web Travel Review

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

The White House

Games

http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hoyle/Games/

Bots and Games

http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/big.html

Online crossword puzzles

http://www.indirect.com/www/beetle87/rush/index.html

Beetle's Punch Rush Limbaugh Page

http://www.interplay.com/mudlist/

The MUD List

http://www.cni-inc.com/slot.html

Shockwave Slot Machine

Graphics Viewers

http://www.jasc.com

Paint Shop Pro

http://www.corel.com/corelcmx/

Corel's CMX Viewer plug-in

http://www.adobe.com

Adobe Acrobat

http://www.twcorp.com

Envoy plug-in

Graphics Sites

http://netletter.com/

Dick Oliver's Nonlinear Nonsense Netletter

http://netletter.com/cameo/hotlist/hotlist.html

Texture and Background Wonderland

http://fohnix.metronet.com/~kira/icongifs/

Kira's icon library

http://www.cbil.vcu.edu:8080/gifs/bullet.html

Buttons, Cubes, and Bars

http://www.vrl.com/Imaging/

Imaging Machine

http://fohnix.metronet.com/~kira/colors/

256-color square

http://www.netcreations.com/ramper/index.html

Color Ramper

http://www.artn.nwu.edu/

(Art)^n

http://www.art.net/Welcome.html

Art on the Net

Interactive Media Players

http://www.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/index.html

Macromedia's Shockwave Page

http://www.macromedia.com/Tools/Director/index.html

Background on director "movies"

http://www.ncompasslabs.com/

NCompass ActiveX plug-in

Internet Directories

http://www.yahoo.com/

Yahoo!

http://www.nosc.mil/planet_earth/everything.html

Planet Earth Home Page

http://gnn.com/wic/wics/index.html

GNN Select

http://galaxy.einet.net/

TradeWave Galaxy

http://cool.infi.net/

Cool Site of the Day

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html

Internet Resources Meta-Index

http://www.eskimo.com/%7Eirving/web-voyeur/

Web Voyeur (live camera views)

http://www.commerce.net/directories/products/isp/

Internet Service Provider Directory

Internet Explorer Resources

http://www.clubie.com/

ClubIE: Informal group that gathers to discuss Microsoft's Internet products and strategies

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/

Internet Explorer Home Page

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/addons/default.htm

Internet Explorer 3.0 add-ons

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/showcase/default.htm

Internet Explorer 3.0 Showcase: Pages that demonstrate Internet Explorer 3.0's newest Web technology

Internet Search Tools

http://www.lycos.com/

Lycos Search

http://www.webcrawler.com/

WebCrawler Searching

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html

World Wide Web Worm

http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/aliweb/search/doc/form.html

ALIWEB Search

http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog

CUI W3 Catalog

http://www.infoseek.com/

InfoSeek

http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/public/archie/servers.html

Nexor's Archie List

http://www.scs.unr.edu/veronica.html

Veronica Home Access Page

Internet Security

http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html

World Wide Web Security FAQ

http://www.c2.org/hacknetscape/

Hack Netscape

http://www.microsoft.com/IE/security/default.htm

Internet Explorer 3.0 Security

http://asearch.mccmedia.com/www-security.html

World Wide Web Security Messages

http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/MSU/research_news/web_sec/NETSCAP1.HTM

Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer

Java

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/java/

Internet Explorer 3.0 Java Support

http://java.sun.com/

Center of the Java Universe

http://www.javasoft.com

Java Home Page

http://www.gamelan.com/

Gamelan – Java resource registry

http://www.hotwired.com/java

HotWired's Java Page

http://www.applets.com

Java Applet Library

http://www.phoenixat.com/~warreng/soup.html

Soup's Up E-zine

http://www.earthweb.com

EarthWeb Java Development

Java Applets

http://www.cnet.com

Scrolling Text

http://www-elec.enst.fr/java/n/test.html

Three-Dimensional Cube

http://www.virtual-inn.co.uk/orbital/beta/adSpace

Advertising Space

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel/classesJDK/PickTest2.html

TeleMed

http://storm.atmos.uiuc.edu/java

The Weather Visualizer

http://www.umich.edu/~dov/webPoker

WebPoker

http://www.zorg.com

Zorg

http://www.dimensionx.com/chat/cafe.html

Cafe Chat

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/juggling

Learning to Juggle

http://www.sdsu.edu/~boyns/java/mc

Missile Commando

http://www.javasoft.com/JDK-prebeta1/applets/TicTacToe/example1.html

Tic-Tac-Toe

http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/dance/JDance.html

Learning to Dance

JavaScript Information

http://www.sna.com/mmatteo/Java/jscookies.html

Cookies with JavaScript

http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html#java

JavaScript security

http://www.inquiry.com/techtips/js_pro/maillist.html

JavaScript mailing list

http://dezines.com/dezines/javalinks.html

DeZines Java/JavaScript directory

http://www.gamelan.com/noframe/Gamelan.javascript.html

Gamelan JavaScript directory

MIME File types

http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html

MIME – RFC 1521 and RFC 1522

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mime-faq/top.html

MIME FAQ

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/

Registered MIME media types

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types

Complete listing of current registered MIME types

News, Weather, and Sports

http://nytimesfax.com

TimesFax

http://cnn.com

CNN Interactive

http://www.nando.net/nt/

The Nando Times

http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/abc.html

ABC News Reports

http://www.sjmercury.com/

Mercury Center Subscriptions

http://www.pathfinder.com/

Time Warner's PathFinder

http://www.intellicast.com

NBC Intellicast Weather

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/

Interactive Weather Information Network

http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/eqmandr.html

Earthquake Information

http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/

WeatherNet

http://ESPNET.SportsZone.com

ESPNET SportsZone

http://www.igolf.com

iGolf

http://www.audionet.com/audio211.htm

AudioNet Sports

http://www.nba.com/Theater/index.html

NBA Theater

http://qtvr1.quicktime.apple.com/duke/duke.html

Duke Basketball

http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/sports

World Wide Web of Sports

Server Setup

http://home.mcom.com/comprod/server_central/test_drive.html

Netscape Server Central

http://www.proper.com/www/servers-chart.html

Web servers comparison

http://www.sgi.com/Products/WebFORCE/WebStone/FAQ-webstone.html

WebStone

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/InformationServers/Performance/V1.4/report.html

Performance of several HTTP demons on an HP 735 workstation

http://home.mcom.com/comprod/server_central/performance_whitepaper.html

Netscape performance benchmark test

http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/log-analyzers.html

HTTPD log analyzers

http://web.sau.edu/~mkruse/mkstats/

MK-Stats: One of the more popular Perl analyzers

http://clubweb.ora.com/software/VBSTAT31A.ZIP

VB-Stats: Visual Basic tool for logfile analysis (binaries)

http://clubweb.ora.com/software/VBS31ASRC.ZIP

VB-Stats: Visual Basic tool for logfile analysis (source code)

http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/MOMspider/

MOMspider Web Robot

http://www.amazing.com/internet/faq.html

Internet Access Provider FAQ

Shockwave Sites

http://www.macromedia.com/Gallery/

The Interactive Gallery

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/shockwavelist.html

Shockwave List o' Sites

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/nojava/

Alan's NoJava

http://www.turntable.com:80/shockwave_plug/

Turntable's Needle Drop

http://www.toystory.com/toybox/shock.htm

Toy Story game

http://www.dmc.missouri.edu/shockwave/plan.html

SPG Staff Blast

http://www.mdmi.com/nomis.htm

Nomis

http://www.dreamlight.com/dreamlt/gallery/verttice.htm

DreamLight Verttice

http://www.mackerel.com/bubble.html

Virtual Bubble Wrap

http://www.hyperstand.com/shockwave

New Media magazine

Video Players

http://quicktime.apple.com

QuickTime

http://www.vdolive.com

VDOLive

http://www.xingtech.com

StreamWorks Video

Software Archives

http://cwsapps.fibr.net

Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List

http://www.teleport.com/~alano/coolhelp.html

Cool Helpers Page

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/

The Washington University Software Archive

http://www.winsite.com/

WinSite

http://coyote.csusm.edu/cwis/winworld/winworld.html

The CSUSM Windows Shareware Archive

file://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/

SimTel

ftp://mirrors.aol.com

AOL Mirrors

http://ftp.sunet.se/

SUNET FTP archive

http://www.shareware.com

Shareware.com

Video Sites

http://www.sony.com/Music/VideoStuff/VideoClips/index.html

Music video clips

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/rml/Mpeg/

Rob's Multimedia Lab

http://www.best.com/~johnp/film.html

MPEG Bizarre Film Festival

http://www.synapse.net/~ob/welcome.htm

Cartoon animations

Virtual Reality Sites

http://www.newtype.com/NewType/vr/index.htm

Virtual Reality Center

http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com

QuickTime VR Home Page

http://www.netproductions.com/balcony/default.html

The Balcony

http://www.paperinc.com/wrls.html

Paper Software's Cool List of VRML Worlds

http://www.cybertown.com

Cybertown Virtual Freeway

http://www.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~aly/polygon/vrml/ika/

Interactive Origami

http://www.ocnus.com/models/mall.wrl

VRML Mall

http://www.tcp.ca/gsb/VRML/models/pc-win95sky.wrl

Virtual PC

http://www.hyperreal.com/~mpesce/circle.wrl

Zero Circle

VRML Renderers

http://www.chaco.com/vrscout/

VR Scout

http://www.cts.com/~template/WebSpace/monday.html

WebSpace

http://www.paperinc.com

WebFX plug-in

http://www.intervista.com

WorldView plug-in

http://www.ids-net.com

VRealm plug-in

http://www.dimensionx.com

Liquid Reality plug-in