If you haven't already guessed, the PDMSB Browser is really Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5 with some minor (but to me, important) tweeks. In addition to the more convenient access afforded by the ScrapBook concept, the ability to save URLs (favorites) and Web pages is greatly simplified. And the greatest feature may turn out to be the Browser Log.

In an article, "Keeping an Eye on Your Browser by Monitoring Internet Explorer 4.0 Events", Scott Roberts writes the following.

"Being able to control Internet Explorer 4.0 is great, but if you can't tell what Internet Explorer 4.0 is doing, you still don't have full control. For this reason, Internet Explorer 4.0 exposes an event interface through which you can monitor its activity and perform certain actions."

Makes sense, right?? Well, PDMSB now has the ability to log those events to a report so that you can see "what your browser is doing".

I invite you to try this feature, it can be switched on or off with ease; but, use caution, the files can get pretty big if you spend much time on the Web. The Support Forum would be a good place to post your comments.

Since I claim that this is 'User Developed' software, I also have to advise you that this logging feature is interesting, but nowhere adequate. The 'events' that Microsoft provides are those events that can be displayed on a status line. If you want to see what your browser is doing you have to see the exact transmission the browser is sending and the exact changes the browser is making to your disk. Without that capability, you still don't have full control. To the best of my knowledge, Microsoft does not make that kind of information available. I'll let you be the judge of their motivations.