The history of Web browser

Source: Internet
Author: User
Tags gopher ftp access seamonkey

  A browser is an HTML file (an application of the standard Universal Markup Language) that can display a Web server or a file system, which is used to display text, images, and other information on the World Wide Web or on a local area network to facilitate people's browsing. Tim Berners-lee was the first person to use hypertext to share information, and in 1990 invented the first web browser--worldwideweb (later renamed Nexus).  WorldWideWeb's navigation uses only "back", "previous" and "Next" three buttons, but it also has the function of the editor. Erwise is known as the world's first graphical web browser, primarily for the need to run X windows on UNIX.  Erwise implemented a search engine-like text at the time, Erwise also implemented a load of multiple pages at a time.  Violawww is one of the oldest browsers released in May 1992, and its developer is the University of California student Pei-yuan Wei (PEI), which is for the need to run X Windows on UNIX. Midaswww is another x browser, published in November 1992.  One of the highlights of midaswww is that the text color changes after clicking the link, which makes midaswww the first web browser to have a plugin. Lynx provides a voice-to-speech interface that provides good functionality for people with visual and auditory impairments.  In 1993 Lou Montulli upgraded Lynx to 2.0, although Lynx lacked graphics, but the video and audio features were powerful. In 1993, Mosaic was born in the National Supercomputer Application Center (NCSA), which is also a UNIX computer running under X-windows.  At that time, the standard of HTML 2.0 was not perfect, which makes mosaic somewhat imperfect in function.  Arena is the first support background image, table, text flow picture and embedded mathematical expression browser, support background image, table, text flow around the picture and embedded mathematical expression, was born in 1993. Multi-purpose browser cello widely supports WorldWideWeb, Gopher, FTP, Cso/ph/qi, Usenet News retrieval, and some other protocols at the time.  It was developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Institute of Law Information at Cornell University Law School in 1994 and cello became the first browser on the Windows platform. In 1994, IBM provided its own Webexplorer browser free of charge to OS/2 and warp users. April 1995 IBM will webexplorer and OS/2 toand warp, supports HTML 3,webexplorer, integrates mail and news, and can view the browser's history. In 1994, Netscape Navigator was a standalone browser, but its market share far exceeded Microsoft's Internet Explorer.  At that time Netscape Company (Netscape) announced that the browser is completely free for non-commercial users! Mosaic promote the graphical web browsing, no slip or TCP/IP is not supported. Slipknot was born at this time-to meet the needs of UNIX-dial Internet users.  Slipknot allows web browsers and UNIX terminal windows to switch between, can load and display a variety of files, display embedded images, provide anonymous FTP access, Gopher network, and can send HTML messages. Minuet is an essential tool for Minnesota Internet users, born at the University of Minnesota.  It provides a wide range of web browsing and related functions based on DOS system. Microsoft's Internet Explorer was first launched in 1995. Microsoft's source code has benefited from mosaic, learning and quickly starting to adjust its browser is a major feature of IE. The latest version of IE is IE8, and the appearance is not much different from IE7, but it adds a lot of features-such as tag grouping, accelerators, webslices, private browsing, and smart phishing filters.  Although IE8 became the most standard browser in history, it still did not pass the ACID3 test completely. 1996, Opera released. Opera, formerly known as Multitorg Opera, is known for its excellent multi-page browsing features, shortcut bars, and toolbar settings. Until the 2.0 version of Multitorg Opera was formally renamed Opera. Opera9 was released in 2006 and the current version is 9.64. In the development of the 9.x series, the Presto layout engine (Presto) was upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1.1. Accessories are also introduced in the 9th edition.  OPERA9 is a version formally tested by the ACID2 Web Standard, with the introduction of widgets (Tools). Grail, author of Geven Rossoum (Guido von Rossum), is a well-known Python programmer. Grail was originally created to provide a "can be hacked" browser for research. Python provides more convenience for research browsers, while eliminating the "black" link.  It was born in 1995. Arachne is a graphical browser that was born in 1996 and supports Ms-dos,opendos, as well as the Dr DOS platform. The software is completely free and only 1.44MB size, but its function is weakened by small, in fact it is the opposite. Amaya, like an editor, was launched by the Organization in 1996 to showcase the full features of web technology while trying a standardized test.  Amaya is still being used and is used to test new technologies and ideas. Powerbrowser clients can be used to set up personal Web services, support tables and images, Web search, and Java-based as well as basic scripting features. and supports Network Loadable Objects (NLO).  Initially, Oracle Powerbrowser only supported Windows, followed by versions of Mac and UNIX. Mozilla's browser Firefox, but the Mozilla app Suite before Firefox is also very well-known. This kit is known as seamonkey,1998, cross-platform and supports Netscape Communicator.  SeaMonkey contains a Web browser (Navigator), Mail and News app (Communicator), a page developer (Mozilla Composer), and an IRC client (ChatZilla).  Konqueror is also a multi-user client that includes File Manager, KDE technology, Kaiyuan browser and a common browsing application. K-meleon published in 2000, K-meleon and Firefox are very similar and they are all based on the Gecko engine.  K-meleon is actually more lightweight, it provides users with a wider range of plugins, but it has little resources of its own. Galeon and K-meleon are based on the Gecko engine, which is equivalent to rewriting the Firefox engine.  The same Galeon is also lightweight, and strict adherence to standard 2001 appears. Apple launched the Safari browser in 2003, but knew that 2007 years of Safari3 only began to appear in Windows version.  The Safari 3 interface adheres to Apple's consistent style and supports Web pages that embed text boxes, rendering fast and meeting standard requirements. Firefox's second largest browser in the world, it was born in 2004 and is the most popular browser. Firefox actually comes from Mozilla's app suite.  Davkay (Dave Hyatt) and Brechrosse (Blake Ross) built a lightweight browser with many extensions--this is Firefox. In 2008, Google released the Chrome browser, which is also based on the WebKit platform, like Safari. Google official said ChrOME improves security and reliability, and single-process processing for each label.   above is referenced in 360doc.  

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