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Internet Ratings Documentation

This section covers the Internet Ratings API used to support ratings on the Windows Internet Explorer platform.

Note  The Internet Ratings API is deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. Use Windows 8 Family Safety feature instead.

 

Overviews/Tutorials

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Introduction to Internet Ratings

The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) group chartered to define a standard for the creation of rating systems and rating information. PICS is the open W3C standard for solving the problem of minors accessing adult content on the Internet. Microsoft views PICS as the best direction for solving these problems. This document describes how to support ratings on the Internet Explorer platform. It is written for HTML authors who want to support PICS ratings on their site, and also for programmers who are developing Web authoring or viewing tools and applications.

 

Interfaces

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IObtainRating

Not implemented.

IWPCBlockedUrls

Exposes methods to enumerate a list of banned URLs for use by the Windows Parental Controls of Windows Vista.

 

Functions

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RatingAccessDeniedDialog

Displays a modal dialog box telling the user that access to the requested content is denied.

RatingAccessDeniedDialog2

Displays a modal dialog box telling the user that access to the requested content is denied. This function is identical to RatingAccessDeniedDialog except that if a ratings modal dialog box is already being displayed, the details from the second call are inserted into the existing dialog box.

RatingAddPropertyPage

Not implemented.

RatingCheckUserAccess

Determines whether the user is allowed to view the given content based on the associated rating label.

RatingEnable

Enables or disables ratings.

RatingEnabledQuery

Reports whether ratings should be enforced.

RatingFreeDetails

Frees the detail information returned by the RatingCheckUserAccess function.

RatingInit

Not implemented.

RatingObtainCancel

Enables a browser to cancel its request to obtain the rating for a URL.

RatingObtainQuery

Encapsulates the process of checking ratings.

RatingSetupUI

Displays a modal dialog box that enables a parent to set levels of restrictions.

RatingTerm

Not implemented.