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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/