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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:03:13 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:55:52 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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-A program used to render
HTML into something you can interact
with.
+A browser is a
program that downloads
HTML documents, images, and other content and renders it all nicely for the user to look at. And feel free to come up
with a better definition
.
-Examples include Mozilla (see MozillaNotes), InternetExplorer, Konqueror, Opera, Lynx... the list is endless.
+Examples include [
Mozilla]
(see MozillaNotes), InternetExplorer, Konqueror, Opera, Lynx... the list is endless.
+
+[Opera] has the least broken implementation of CSS (which doesn't necessarily say much) and Konqueror has the most broken one. InternetExplorer just tends to be... idiosyncratic in its interpretation of the standard. (Sigh.)
+
+The first graphical WebBrowser (from c. 1992?) was NCSA [Mosaic]
.
Under X on Linux I recommend Mozilla, on a Linux console I recommend lynx(1) or links(1), depending on your tastes (and resolution).
