What is IE browser

What is IE browser? This problem in many technical people's eyes should be a matter of no significance at all, a theory you should understand the things, and other people to ask you what the computer is like, feeling is a very common sense of the problem. But in fact, many people do not know what IE is.

To figure out what an IE browser is, I think we should first figure out what a browser is. In a random survey conducted last month in New York's Times Square, Google asked people surveyed, "What is a browser?" It seems to be a simple question. Surprisingly, only 8% of the people know the answer, and 92% don't know what the browser is or misunderstand it as a search engine.

The so-called browser, popular point is that we usually use to surf the Internet to view Web site Browsing tool software. We run the browser, in the browser's address bar to enter the Web site, the browser can be our instructions (need to see what web site or Web page) to translate and to the Internet, the computer server to request, when the server satisfied with the request will HTNL file sent over, The browser then translates the file into a format that we can see and present to us. This process is a browsing process, and the browser is just a tool to convert and show each other.

So what is IE? the full name is Internet Explorer, which is only one of the most popular browsers in the world today. Believe that many netizens in the first contact with the computer, on the desktop will see an e icon, we are using him to open the site, this is IE browser. It is developed by Microsoft and is directly bound to Microsoft's Windows operating system, when the user's computer installed Windows operating system, no need to download the installation of the browser can use IE browser micro-web browsing. At present it is the first in the browser ranking (about 65% of the world's browser share). Of course, in addition to IE there are many other browsers, such as Netscape's Netscape browser earlier, the current use of the crowd after ie Firefox browser, domestic travel, Tencent tt,360 Security browser and so on. It should be said that for ordinary users a variety of browsers in the function is not much different, can quickly and efficiently browse the Web, but in the specific details of each have their own advantages.

IE browser (Internet Explorer) development process:

IE1.0 released its debut in January 1995, bundled with the OS Windows 95.

In November, after 10 months of IE1.0 release, IE2.0 was born in a hurry, adding support for tables and some new HTML elements. Meanwhile, IE2 is tied to Windows NT 4.0.

August 1996, IE3.0 official release. This version provides support for HTML table customization, frameworks, and more HTML elements. It also provides support for VB and Java scripting languages.

The IE3.01 was released in October, and IE3 was bundled in the Windows OSR2 operating system.

October 1997, IE4.0 official release. This version enhances support for the style list and document Object model, adding new features and a noticeable improvement in the browser's display capabilities.

November, IE4.01 officially released. IE4 is bundled with the Windows 98 operating system.

March 1999, IE5.0 official release. In addition to the already-known developer previews, this version offers more CSS2 features and more new CSS attributes, a feature that is a bright spot in this release. IE5 is bundled in both Windows 98SE and the Windows 2000 operating system.

July 2000, IE5.5 official release. This version adds support for more CSS properties. IE5.5 is bundled in the Windows Millennium Edition (ME) operating system.

October 2001, IE6.0 Browser official release. There have been more changes to CSS, and some minor bugs have been corrected. The birth of IE6 is with Windows XP.

September 2002, IE6.0SP1 released, this version of the security vulnerabilities were patched.

IE6 and operating system Windows XP Home/pro bundle.

March 2003, Microsoft and AOL reached an agreement, in the next 7 years, AOL continued to use IE as the default browser, licensing fees. Microsoft has also announced that IE is no longer released as a separate browser software, but only with the new operating system. At this point, IE's market share has exceeded 90, the former extremely brilliant Netscape finally completely out of the browser King stage.

October 19, 2006, Microsoft IE7.0 Browser officially released (Simplified Chinese version of IE7.0 Browser published on December 1, 2006).

On December 13, 2007, Opera filed an antitrust lawsuit with the European Commission accusing Microsoft of violating antitrust laws in the operating system's bundled IE browser.

March 6, 2008, IE8.0 Browser Beta 1, IE will be structured on the Peer-to-peer network.

August 27, 2008, Microsoft launched IE8.0 Beta 2, on IE added compatibility View, privacy browsing mode, etc. (for WINDOWSXPSP2/SP3, WindowsVista)

December 16, 2008, improve the performance and stability of the IE8.0 beta, improve browsing speed and so on.

March 19, 2009 Microsoft to the world officially released the 8th version of IE browser IE8, users can download free IE8 installation use.

Important events in the history of IE browsers

While this may seem like a simple problem, it has a direct impact on web developers. Developers always want users to use the latest browsers so that they can directly adopt new technologies and techniques without having to spend a lot of time thinking about compatibility issues with old browsers. The development of IE6 is a particularly prominent problem. The original version of IE6 has been published for 8 years, and it still has 20% users. So it's tricky to encourage users to upgrade browsers when most people don't know what the browser is. These users cannot understand the benefits of a new browser, Clearly they are satisfied with the software available.

Google launched the "what Browser" (What Browser) activity, although to the Internet to explain what the browser is, but I think the user knows what the browser is not the matter, for ordinary users, they know that the desktop has a similar "E" Word tools can help them to browse the site they want to see enough. If who wants to replace the user desktop "E" word, it is necessary to see who can bring users the most comfortable network experience!