If you have Internet Explorer from Microsoft installed on your PC, Chi3D Worlds will
use it to display web pages in a window contained within the Chi3D Worlds browser itself.
This is a powerful and easy way to view web content alongside the 3D content of Chi3D
Worlds. Many members and world owners have augmented their 3D creations with links to web
pages. If you are not using the integrated web browser, you are missing out on a
substantial portion of the Chi3D Worlds experience!
If you do not have Internet Explorer™ installed on your PC, we recommend that you download and
install it. If you are a Netscape user, you can continue to use Netscape to view web pages
outside of Chi3D Worlds, even if you have Internet Explorer installed. Internet Explorer
does not need to be your default web browser in order for Chi3D Worlds to take advantage
of its functionality. It simple needs to be present on your PC.
Why we don't support Netscape
Actually, we do support Netscape. If you absolutely do not want Internet Explorer
installed on your PC, you can still use Netscape to view web pages in Chi3D Worlds.
However, to do so you must separately start up Netscape and run it concurrently with Chi3D
Worlds (we do not recommend this on PCs with less than 32 megabytes of RAM.) If
Netscape is running, Chi3D Worlds will send the URLs it encounters to the Netscape browser
for display. You will have to switch back and forth between Chi3D Worlds and Netscape in
order to view the web pages.
What we can't do is run Netscape inside Chi3D Worlds the way we do with Internet
Explorer. This is because the integrated web page window is implemented using ActiveX.
Internet Explorer is capable of running inside other applications as an ActiveX control,
while the Netscape browser is not.
in the toolbar (not available in simple mode.)