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2. What is a Web Browser?
Definition
In simple Words a web browser is a program used to
Interpret and view HTML documents.
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A web browser is a software application for retrieving,
presenting, and traversing information resources on the
World Wide Web.
3. The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It
was called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and was later renamed Nexus.
In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen
with the release of Mosaic (later Netscape)
Microsoft responded with its Internet Explorer in 1995, also heavily
influenced by Mosaic, initiating the industry's first browser war.
Opera debuted in 1996.
January 1998 was also the month that Netscape started the open
source Mozilla project.
Google's Chrome, the most famous major entrant to the browser
market, first released in September 2008.
How all this started?
History
4. How Browser Work?
The browser main functionality is to present the web resource you choose,
by requesting it from the server and displaying it on the browser window.
The resource is usually an HTML document, but may also be a PDF, image,
or other type.
The location of the resource is specified by the user using a URI (Uniform
resource Identifier).
As You Write URL and hit GO button browser program sends a request
(Could I have the web page please?) to a web server program running on
the remote computer.
The server program, gathers the request from the web browser, tries to hunt
for the web page and then formulates a response.
5. How Browser Work? Contd.
If server was able to locate the web page, it sends the HTML file to the web
browser.
The browser picks up all the information coming in from the server and does
its best to display the web page.
A typical web page not only has text but also images and these are separate
files that need to be transferred from the server to the browser.
The browser-server communication goes on till all the files have been
transferred to the browser.
After that Browser-server connection is disconnected and Web Page is
Displayed on the browser window.
7. First Browser War started…
INTERNET EXPLORER
Microsoft licensed Mosaic from
Spyglass as the basis of
Internet Explorer 1.0.
First version came in 1995.
3 And thus it all started...
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8. A new Entry in Browser’s war
OPERA
Development of Opera web
browser began in 1994 when it
was started as a research project
at Telenor.
In 1995, the project branched
out into a separate company
named Opera Software ASA.
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First publicly available version
released in 1996.
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9. Mozilla is formed…
MOZILLA
Netscape starts the open source
Mozilla project.
It was produced to build a
competitive
open source browser.
3 First release was in 2004.
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10. Steve Jobs enters in Browser market
SAFARI
Until 1997, Apple Macintosh
computers were shipped with the
Netscape Navigator.
Later for Mac OS Internet
Explorer is used as default
browser.
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On January 7, 2003, at San
Francisco, Steve Jobs
announced Safari.
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11. Browser war Intensifies
CHROME
A free Web Browser developed
by Google.
It uses the same Engine which
is used by Apple’s Safari i.e.
Web Kit
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It was first released as a beta
version for Microsoft Windows
on September 2, 2008.
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