What is a Web Browser
What is a Web Browser ?
17/09/2010 08:23
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.[1] Hyperlinks present in...
History of Web Browsers
History
17/09/2010 08:25
WorldWideWeb for NeXT, released in 1991, was the first Web browser.
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. That browser brought together a variety...
User interface
User interface
17/09/2010 08:40
Most major web browsers have these user interface elements in common:
Back and forward buttons to go back to the previous resource and forward again.
A refresh or reload button to reload the current resource.
A stop button to cancel loading the resource. In some browsers, the stop...
Funtions of a Web Browser
Function
17/09/2010 08:33
The primary purpose of a web browser is to bring information resources to the user. This process begins when the user inputs a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for example http://en.wikipedia.org/, into the browser. The prefix of the URI determines how the URI will be interpreted. The most...
List of web browsers
List of web browsers
17/09/2010 08:41
Year
Web Browsers
Internet
Users (in millions)
1991
WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
1992
ViolaWWW, Erwise, MidasWWW, MacWWW (Samba)
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