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    Web Browser

    An application that supports the client side of


    the http and Internet Protocol for the www. We
    can use a web browser, also called web
    browser, to access content published on a web
    server.

    Web browsers also appear in simpler devices


    such as internet connected cell phones, like
    many Nokia models.
    Cont..
    The first graphical web browser was developed
    in 1993 by a group of students headed by Marc
    Andreessen at the National Center for
    Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). This
    browser was known as Mosiac and was
    distributed free.
    Features of web browser
    Toolbar buttons for navigating forward and background
    through the tree of previously displayed pages for
    stopping the downloaded process, and for manually
    refreshing a page that loaded incompletely.
    Facilities for displaying the underlying source code or
    html of a page, and even for edition and publishing web
    content.
    Options for specifying a default home page from which
    to begin browsing, a default search engine for searching
    the web, and other default browsing options
    Netscape
    Netscape communicator is a complete suite of
    internet application, not merely a web browser.
    Netscape communicator suite has so many
    components and some of them are as follows;
    1. Html editor
    2. Netscape navigator
    3. Netscape messenger
    4. Netscape conference
    5. Net casting
    6. Collabra & Usenet
    Netscape navigator
    The center piece of Netscape communicator is
    Netscape navigator, the web browser component
    to process and access html documents & other
    web server contents.
    The latest version of Netscape Navigator has
    added some significant new features to the
    release, the most notable of which is an array of
    tools that together they call smart browsing
    Functions of Netscape Navigator
    Click the back and forward buttons to move
    between pages we have already visited in the
    current session.
    Click the go menu to view a list of all the
    pages we have visited in the current session-
    session-
    our history list. Select a page to return to it.
    To go to a specific web page, type its address
    in the location box. We can pull down a list
    from that box to see every page we have ever
    typed in directly.s
    Internet Explorer
    This is a graphical browser. By using IE we
    can experienced the hypertext, photographs,
    sound, video etc. that are available on the
    world wide web.
    It utilizes the “point and click” technology to
    select hypertext links.
    It provides the helper applications “viewers” to
    display images, open files, hear sounds, view
    movie clips etc.
    Component of Internet Explorer
    Title bar
    Menu bar
    Go menu bar
    Address bar
    Status bar
    Title bar
    The dark blue strip across the top of the
    Internet Explorer screen is known as the title
    bar. In the case of internet explorer it holds the
    title of the current web page followed by name
    of application.
    In the title bar also include minimize,
    maximize and close options.
    Menu Bar
    If we have worked with windows applications
    for any amount of time. We will surely
    recognize many of the items on internet
    explorers menu bar.
    In the menu bar included file, edit, view, help
    etc.
    Go menu bar
    The go menu is a navigational aid helps us
    move from one application in the internet
    explorer suite to another.

    In this bar included back, forward, stop,


    refresh, home, search, history, print etc.
    Address bar
    The address bar is a most important
    component of IE in which type the particular
    web site address.
    Status bar
    The strip across the bottom of the internet
    explorer screen is known as status bar. Status
    bar shows the status of web pages.

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