Trident layout engine
E34637
Trident layout engine is Microsoft's proprietary web page rendering engine used by Internet Explorer to display and interpret HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MSHTML | 2 |
| Microsoft Trident layout engine | 2 |
| Trident layout engine canonical | 2 |
| Internet Explorer 3 layout engine | 1 |
| Internet Explorer rendering engine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T264987 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Trident layout engine Context triple: [Internet Explorer, hasComponent, Trident layout engine]
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A.
V8
V8 is Google’s high-performance open-source JavaScript engine, used in Chrome and Node.js to compile and execute JavaScript directly to native machine code.
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B.
SpiderMonkey
SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's open-source JavaScript engine, written in C/C++ and used primarily in the Firefox web browser.
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C.
JavaScriptCore
JavaScriptCore is Apple’s high-performance JavaScript engine used primarily in the Safari web browser and WebKit-based applications.
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D.
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser and editor, created in 1990 as the original client for navigating and editing content on the World Wide Web.
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E.
N Reactor
N Reactor was a dual-purpose plutonium production and power-generating nuclear reactor at the Hanford Site in Washington, notable for its graphite-moderated, water-cooled design and role in the U.S. Cold War weapons program.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Trident layout engine Target entity description: Trident layout engine is Microsoft's proprietary web page rendering engine used by Internet Explorer to display and interpret HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
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A.
V8
V8 is Google’s high-performance open-source JavaScript engine, used in Chrome and Node.js to compile and execute JavaScript directly to native machine code.
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B.
SpiderMonkey
SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's open-source JavaScript engine, written in C/C++ and used primarily in the Firefox web browser.
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C.
JavaScriptCore
JavaScriptCore is Apple’s high-performance JavaScript engine used primarily in the Safari web browser and WebKit-based applications.
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D.
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser and editor, created in 1990 as the original client for navigating and editing content on the World Wide Web.
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E.
N Reactor
N Reactor was a dual-purpose plutonium production and power-generating nuclear reactor at the Hanford Site in Washington, notable for its graphite-moderated, water-cooled design and role in the U.S. Cold War weapons program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
browser engine
ⓘ
layout engine ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Trident layout engine
ⓘ
surface form:
MSHTML
|
| APIs |
COM interfaces
ⓘ
IHTMLDocument2 and related interfaces ⓘ |
| componentOf |
360 Secure Browser (Trident mode)
ⓘ
surface form:
MSHTML.DLL
|
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| era | late 1990s to 2010s ⓘ |
| implements |
Trident layout engine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
MSHTML
|
| introducedInProductVersion |
Internet Explorer
ⓘ
surface form:
Internet Explorer 4.0
|
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historical compatibility issues with web standards
ⓘ
support for ActiveX controls ⓘ tight integration with Windows ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| platform |
IA-32
ⓘ
x86-64 ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| proprietary | true ⓘ |
| replaced |
Trident layout engine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Internet Explorer 3 layout engine
|
| status | legacy ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Blink (via Microsoft Edge Chromium)
ⓘ
EdgeHTML ⓘ |
| supports |
ActiveX
ⓘ
CSS ⓘ CSS2 (partial) ⓘ CSS3 (partial, in later versions) ⓘ DHTML ⓘ DOM ⓘ ECMAScript ⓘ HTML ⓘ VBScript ⓘ
surface form:
VBScript (legacy)
XHTML (partial) ⓘ XML ⓘ |
| supportsMode |
Compatibility modes for older IE versions
ⓘ
Quirks mode ⓘ Standards mode ⓘ |
| usedBy | Windows applications embedding Internet Explorer control ⓘ |
| usedFor |
executing client-side scripts
ⓘ
layout and painting of web content ⓘ parsing HTML ⓘ rendering web pages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
360 Secure Browser (Trident mode)
ⓘ
AOL Desktop ⓘ
surface form:
AOL Explorer
Avant Browser (legacy versions) ⓘ Internet Explorer ⓘ Maxthon (Chromium-based versions) ⓘ
surface form:
Maxthon (legacy versions)
SlimBrowser (legacy versions) ⓘ Tencent QQ Browser (legacy Trident mode) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Trident layout engine Description of subject: Trident layout engine is Microsoft's proprietary web page rendering engine used by Internet Explorer to display and interpret HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.