Windows Internet Explorer Platform APIs

This section includes proprietary APIs and features for Windows Internet Explorer, such as Pinned sites, F12 developer tools, and MSHTML. This section also includes legacy APIs for older versions of Internet Explorer.

In this section

Topic	Description
Accessibility property change events	Internet Explorer implements several custom Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) property change events that enable Windows Narrator and other assistive technologies to provide users with notifications for when an auto-correction occurs or Input Method Editor (IME) actions happen.
Console Debugging API	The Console Debugging API provides objects, methods, and properties that let you communicate from your app to the F12 tools console.
Diagnostics Object Model API	The Diagnostics Object Model API provides objects, methods, and properties that let you communicate with the Diagnostics Script Engine.
External Object	Allows access to an additional object model provided by host applications of the Windows Internet Explorer browser components.
Internet Security and Privacy	This section contains topics and APIs relating to security and privacy on the web, including Protected Mode, Security Zones, and Tracking Protection.
Pinned Sites	This section describes the APIs related to Pinned sites.
URL Monikers	URL monikers allow an application to bind a resource, specified by a URL, to a moniker.
Windows RSS Platform	The Windows RSS Platform is an API that enables applications to access and manipulate the Common Feed List, a collection of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to which the user has subscribed. This section also contains the documentation for Web Slices.
Internet Explorer Command Identifiers	The Internet Explorer command identifiers are passed as values to the execCommand Method (JavaScript) or execCommand Method (C++).
Legacy APIs	This section also includes legacy APIs for older versions of Internet Explorer.