To take full advantage of Outlook Web Access features, use Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater. Any browser that supports HTTP version 3.2 will work, but certain features and functionality are only available with Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater. The following table compares the browsers.
|
Feature |
Internet Explorer 5.0 or later |
Other |
|
HTML text composition |
Yes |
No |
|
Drag-and-drop editing |
Yes |
No |
|
Preview pane |
Yes |
No |
|
Tree control |
Yes |
No |
Table 2 - Excerpt from Microsoft white paper Microsoft® Exchange Server® &- Outlook® Web Access in Exchange 2000 Server. The Lotus Notes column and functionality comparison was added to the table, and was not part of the aforementioned white paper.
In other browsers, much of this functionality is lost is a result of providing backward compatibility to browsers that do not support DHTML and XML.