WEB
BROWSER
Introduction
A Web browser acts as an interface
between the user and Web server •
Software application that resides on a
computer and is used to locate and
display Web pages. • Web user access
information from web servers, through a
client program
called browser. • A web browser is a
software application for retrieving,
presenting, and traversing information
resources
on the World Wide Web
All major web browsers allow the user to open
multiple information resources at the same time,
Features either in different browser windows or in different
tabs of
the same window • A refresh and stop buttons for
refreshing and stopping the loading of current
documents • Home button that gets you to your
home
page • Major browsers also include pop-up blockers
to prevent unwanted windows from "popping up"
without the user's
consent
Components of
WEB BROWSER
1. User Interface this includes the
2.Reindeering Engine
address bar, back/forward Rendering, that is display of the requested
button, bookmarking menu etc contents on the browser screen. By default
the rendering engine can display HTML and
XML documents and
HISTORY:
The history of the Web browser dates back in to
the late 1980s, when a variety of technologies
laid the foundation for the first Web browser,
WorldWideWeb, by Tim Berners-Lee in
1991. • Microsoft responded with its browser
Internet Explorer in 1995 initiating the industry's
HISTORY:
first browser war • Opera first appeared in 1996;
although it have only 2% browser usage share as
of April 2010, it has a substantial share of the fast
growing mobile phone Web browser market, being
preinstalled on
over 40 million phones.
• In 1998, Netscape launched Mozilla
TYPES OF WEB BROWSERS
• Amaya
• Internet Explorer
• AOL Explorer
• Internet Explorer
• Elinks
for Mac
• Arlington Kiosk
• Konqueror
• Dillo
• Links
• Epiphany
• Lynx
• Flock
• Maxthon
• Galeon
• Mosaic
• iCab
• Mozilla
• K-Meleon
• Mozilla Firefox
• KioWare
• Netscape
• SeaMonkey
• OmniWeb
• Safari
• Opera
WORLD WIDE WEB
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser. When it
was written, WorldWideWeb was the only way to
view the Web • It was capable of displaying basic
style sheets, downloading and opening any file
type supported by the NeXT system, browsing
newsgroups, and spellchecking. At first, images
were displayed in separate windows, until
NeXTSTEP's
Text class supported Image objects.
FIREFOX
The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more
secure, and fully customizable way to
surf the web • Mozilla is a global community
dedicated to building free, open source
products like the award winning Firefox web
browser and Thunderbird email
software. Mozilla
Firefox
Page
OPERA
Opera is a web browser and
Internet suite developed by
Opera Software.
• The browser handles common Internet-related
tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and
receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts,
chatting on IRC downloading files via BitTorrent,
and reading web
feeds. • Opera is offered free of charge for
personal computers and
mobile phones.
SAFARI:
Safari is a graphical web
browser developed by
Apple and included as part
of the Mac OS X
operating system.
• on the company's Mac OS
X operating system, it
CHROME:
Google Chrome is a web browser
developed by Google that uses the
WebKit layout engine and
application framework • It was first
released as a beta version for
Microsoft
Windows on 2 September 2008, and
the public
stable release was on December 11
2008
