HTML - Web Browsers

WEB BROWSER
Web Browser
web Browser is an application software that allows us to view and explore information on the
web. User can request for any web page by just entering a URL into address bar.
Web browser can show text, audio, video, animation and more. It is the responsibility of a web
browser to interpret text and commands contained in the web page.
Earlier the web browsers were text-based while now a days graphical-based or voice-based web
browsers are also available. Following are the most common web browser available today:
Browser Vendor
Internet Explorer Microsoft
Google Chrome Google
Mozilla Firefox Mozilla
Netscape Navigator Netscape Communications Corp.
Opera Opera Software
Safari Apple
Sea Monkey Mozilla Foundation
K-meleon K-meleon
Architecture
There are a lot of web browser available in the market. All of them interpret and display
information on the screen however their capabilities and structure varies depending upon
implementation. But the most basic component that all web browser must exhibit are listed
below:
Controller/Dispatcher
Interpreter
Client Programs
Controller works as a control unit in CPU. It takes input from the keyboard or mouse, interpret it
and make other services to work on the basis of input it receives.
Interpreter receives the information from the controller and execute the instruction line by line.
Some interpreter are mandatory while some are optional For example, HTML interpreter program
is mandatory and java interpreter is optional.
Client Program describes the specific protocol that will be used to access a particular service.
Following are the client programs tat are commonly used:
HTTP
SMTP
FTP
NNTP
POP
Starting Internet Explorer

Internet explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft. It is installed by default with the
windows operating system howerver, it can be downloaded and be upgraded.
To start internet explorer, follow the following steps:
Go to Start button and click Internet Explorer.

The Internet Explorer window will appear as shown in the following diagram:
Accessing Web Page

Accessing web page is very simple. Just enter the URL in the address bar as shown the following
diagram:
Navigation
A web page may contain hyperlinks. When we click on these links other web page is
opened. These hyperlinks can be in form of text or image. When we take the mouse over an
hyperlink, pointer change its shape to hand.
Key Points
In case, you have accessed many web pages and willing to see the previous webpage then
just click back button.
You can open a new web page in the same tab, or different tab or in a new window.
Saving Webpage
You can save web page to use in future. In order to save a webpage, follow the steps given below:
Click File > Save As. Save Webpage dialog box appears.
Choose the location where you want to save your webpage from save in: list box. Then
choose the folder where you want to save the webpage.
Specify the file name in the File name box.
Select the type from Save as type list box.
Webpage, complete
Web Archive
Webpage HTML only
Text File
From the encoding list box, choose the character set which will be used with your
webpage. By default, Western European is selected.
Click save button and the webpage is saved.
Saving Web Elements

Web elements are the pictures, links etc. In order to save these elements follow the steps given
below:
Right click on the webpage element you want to save. Menu options will appear. These
options may vary depending on the element you want to save.
Save Picture As: This option let you save the picture at specific location with its name. When you
click this option, a dialog box is opened where you can sepcify its name and location.
Favourites
The Favourites option helps to save addresses of the webpages you visited oftenly. Hence you
need not to remember long and complex address of websites you visit often.
In order to open any webpage, you just need to double click on the webpage that you have
marked from bookmarks list.
Adding a web page to your Favourites
In ordered to add website to your favourite list, follow the steps given below:
Open webpage that you want to add to your favourite.
Click on favourite menu and then click on Add to Favourites opton. Addfavourites
dialog box appears.
You can also click Favourites button available in the toolbar. Favourites panel will open in the left
corner of the internet explorer window. Click add button, AddFavourites dialog box will apppear.
In AddFavourites dialog box, the Name: text box will contains the name of the web page
that you want to add to favourites.
Click the Create in button, Favoutites folder will appear. Move to the folder where you
want to store the favourites by clicking on the folder name.
Now click OK button to save the favourites.
Opening Favourites
In order to open favourites, follow the steps given below:
In the Favourite Panel, take the mouse over the site that you want to open. Now click on the
address to open that site.
Favourite can also be opened from the Favourites menu by selecting the appropriate one.
Organizing Favourites
Favourites can be organized by categorizing web pages, creating folder for each category and
then storing web pages into them. In order to organize favourites, follow the steps given
below:
Click Favourites menu > Organize Favourites. Organize favourites dialog box will
appears.
In order to organize the webpages, drag the individual webpage to the respective folder.
Similarly to delete a favourite, Click on delete button.

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WEB BROWSER

Internet Explorer Microsoft

Google Chrome Google

Mozilla Firefox Mozilla

Netscape Navigator Netscape Communications Corp.

Opera Opera Software

Sea Monkey Mozilla Foundation

Starting Internet Explorer

To start internet explorer, follow the following steps:

Go to Start button and click Internet Explorer.

Accessing Web Page

Specify the file name in the File name box.

Select the type from Save as type list box.

Webpage HTML only

Click save button and the webpage is saved.

Saving Web Elements

Adding a web page to your Favourites

Open webpage that you want to add to your favourite.

Now click OK button to save the favourites.

In order to open favourites, follow the steps given below:

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