WEB BROWSERS

WEB BROWSER BASICS

Define: a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

Function: bring information resources to the user

Differences in Features: text based supported by HTML or rich user supported by with large variety of file formats

and protocols

Similarities in User Interface Back and forward buttons, History list, Refresh or reload, button,

Stop button, Home button, Address bar, Search bar, Status bar

NOTABLE BROWSERS IN ORDER OF RELEASE:

Mosaic, April 22, 1993 Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator

, October 13, 1994 Internet Explorer 1, August 16, 1995 Opera, 1996, see

History of the Opera Internet suite Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002[17]

Safari, January 7, 2003 Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004 Google Chrome, September 2, 2008

SEE YOUR PAGE IN OTHER BROWSERS

www.browsershots.org –see your web page in other browser views Use this site to look at Class Web Site

ALTERNATIVE BROWSERS

13 Alternative Browsers for Web Designers

http://www.reencoded.com/2010/06/10/13-alternative-browsers-for-web-designers/