Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Web Browsers & their Functioning

Introduction:
This is a well known fact that every computer supports an operating system.Some systems have Windows as operating system whereas others have Linux/Unix.Selection of the Operating system depends on the indivisual's requirements.The programming for each operating system is entirely different along with unique functionalities.

Browser History:
In the starting period of computers,Variety of operating systems was a big issue to be resolved as it was difficult to connect two or more systems with different operating systems installed in them.Due to this reason it was a necessity to have a language which can effectively be executed on all operating systems.
The first language to overcome this issue was HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language).It was designed so that web browsers can ubderstand it easily.Every browser supports HTML.Earlier browsers use to support only HTML but nowadays there are many more similar languages such as XHTML.

BROWSER TECHNIQUE:
A webpage is located in the form of URL(Uniform Resource Locator) which is known as address .The webaddress starts with HTTP.Some browsers support other URL types and their protocols like Gopher,FTP etc.


Some popular Browsers:
Starting from 1991 with the first browser "world wide web" there are some other popular names like Mozaic,Internet Explorer,Netscape,Opera,Safari and Chrome.Apart from this the popular mobile browsers are Abaco,Nettamer,Qurel.Browsers known for some specific tasks are Flock,Image Explorer,Space time,Jack browser,Syndrome.Flock is very popular for searching networking sites,blogs,Photo share.Space time on the other hand is very popular for 3D searching on the web.

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