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Presentation by:
Manish Bharti
The way we will go through
this presentation
What is a web browser?
Web browser’s brief history.
Working of web bowsers.
Standards.
Protocols.
Features of web browsers.
Names of few web browsers commonly
used today.
Comparison of few browser’s features
Usage of web browsers.
Browser timelines.
What is a Web Browser?
file
ftp
gopher
http
mailto
news
telnet
Features of web browsers
Fundamental features like bookmark
manager, caching of web contents,
and support of media types like
macromedia flash and quick time.
Usability and accessability features
like auto completion,tabbed
browsing,spatial navigation.
Also others features like pop-up
advertisement blocker.
Names of web browsers
commonly used today
Internet explorer
Mozilla firefox
Netscape
Konqueror
Apple safari
Opera
Comparison of few browser’s
features
Usage of Web Browsers
Browser Timelines
The launching dates of two of popular browsers
Windows Netscape
1.0 Aug 1995 1.0 Dec 1994
2.0 Nov 1995 1.1 Apr. 1995
2.0 Mar. 1996
3.0 Aug 1996
3.0 Aug. 1996
4.0 Oct 1997
4.0 Jun. 1997
5.0 Mar 1999 4.5 Oct. 1998
5.5 Jul 2000 6.0 Nov. 2000
6.0 Oct 2001 7.0 Aug. 2002
7.0 Mar 2006
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