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. |