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How Web Browsers Work

Web browsers use a client/server model where the browser (client) requests information from a web server. The server locates the requested pages, usually built with HTML, and sends them to the browser to be displayed. Browsers can also display applications, programs, and media created with languages like JavaScript. If a file type isn't supported, like sound or video, browsers use plug-ins to enable playback. Common browsers include those for Windows, Mac, and Unix devices.

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How Web Browsers Work

Web browsers use a client/server model where the browser (client) requests information from a web server. The server locates the requested pages, usually built with HTML, and sends them to the browser to be displayed. Browsers can also display applications, programs, and media created with languages like JavaScript. If a file type isn't supported, like sound or video, browsers use plug-ins to enable playback. Common browsers include those for Windows, Mac, and Unix devices.

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How Web Browsers Work

Intoduction

Like much of the Internet, the World Wide Web operates on a client/server model. You run a web client on your computercalled a web browsersuch as Microsofts Internet Explorer or Firefox. That client contacts a web server and requests information or resources. The web server locates and then sends the information to the web browser, which displays the results. When web browsers contact servers, theyre asking to be sent pages built with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Browsers interpret those pages and display them on your computer. They also can display applications, programs, animations, and similar material created with programming languages such as Java and ActiveX, scripting languages such as JavaScript, and techniques such as AJAX. Sometimes, home pages contain links to files the web browser cant play or display, such as sound or animation files. In that case, you need a plug-in or a helper application. You configure your web browser or operating system to use the helper application or plug-in whenever it encounters a sound, animation, or other type of file the browser cant run or play. Web browsers consist of client software that runs on your computer and displays home pages on the Web. There are clients for a wide variety of devices, including Windows, Macintosh, and Unix computer.

NOTE:
Web browsers cant display some types of files on the Internet, notably some kinds of multimedia files, such as sound, video, and animation files. (A common file type like this is called Flash.) To view or play these files, you need what is called a helper application or plug-in. You must configure your web browser or operating system to launch these helper applications and plug-ins whenever you click an object that needs them to be viewed. More often than not, when you install the application or plug-in, it will configure itself properly.

Academic conferences:
The major academic event covering the Web is the World Wide Web Conference, promoted by IW3C2.

WWW prefix in Web addresses:


The letters "www" are commonly found at the beginning of Web addresses because of the longstanding practice of naming Internet hosts (servers) according to the services they provide. So for example, the host name for a Web server is often "www"; for an FTP server, "ftp"; and for a

USENET news server "news" or "nntp" (after the news protocol NNTP. These host names appear as DNS subdomain names, as in "www.example.com".

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