Web Browsers
Submitted by oyahadmin on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 03:38.
| The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.oyah.net, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. The home page is an index to other pages on that site that you can jump to by clicking a "click here" message or an icon. Links on that site may take you to other related sites. Browsers have a bookmark feature that lets you store references to your favorite sites. Instead of typing in the URL again to visit the site the next time, you select one of the bookmarks. Although Mosaic was the browser that put the Web on the map, the two major browsers today are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Navigator and Internet Explorer each vie for top recognition by introducing new features and functions that fragment Web sites into competing camps. When a site says "best viewed by Netscape Navigator" or "best viewed by Internet Explorer," it means that the pages were programmed for that particular browser. Using the other browser will ignore some of the page's fancy features until a subsequent release supports them. |
| Apple |
Mozilla |
Netscape |
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Mozila Firefox 2.0 (MAC) |
Netscape 7 Netscape 4.7 |
| Microsoft |
Flock | |
| IFlock 1.0.9 (Windows) |
Google Chrome 0.2 |
