November 2013
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950 pages
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Internet Explorer
Your copy of Windows 8 actually comes with two versions of Internet Explorer 11. There’s the TileWorld version, described here, and the desktop version, described in Chapter 15.
By now, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a Web browser. It’s the program you use to visit Web sites, of course. The TileWorld version of Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer (IE for short) has many of the features of a desktop Web browser: bookmarks, autocomplete (for Web addresses), scrolling shortcuts, cookies, a pop-up ad blocker, password memorization, and so on.
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It doesn’t work with plug-ins or add-on toolbars, however.
The TileWorld IE likes to show you pure Web, from edge to edge of your screen; it wants to dedicate as much screen space as possible to the Web’s glory. The following pages show you how to make those bells and whistles appear.
Note
You can’t designate a Home page (start page) in TileWorld IE. But if you set up a Home page in the desktop version, then the TileWorld version will also open to that page.
The Address Bar
Like any Web browser, this one offers several tools for navigating the Web: the address bar, bookmarks, and good old link tapping.
The address bar is the strip at the bottom of the screen where you enter the URL (Web address) for a page you want to visit. (“URL” is short for the even-less-self-explanatory uniform resource locator.)
If you have a keyboard, the most efficient way to jump to the address bar is to press Alt+D, just as in IE versions ...
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