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Web Browser presentation
Name/ Hassan AL-Abdulmohsen
ID/200700724
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What is Web Browser?
A web browser is a software application for retrieving,
presenting, and traversing information resources on the
World Wide Web
• History of web browser:
•The first web browser invented in 1990 by Tim Burner Lee
called (World Wide Web).
•In 1993, browser software innovated by Marc Andreessen
with release of NetScape.
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 Popular web browsers
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
Mozilla’s Firefox
Apple’s Safari
Opera Software’s Opera
Connecting to the Internet
Computer + web browser software + ISP = Internet access
- Computer must have modem or network card
- Modem - hardware and converts data to audio tones and
transmits the data over phone lines
- Network card or network interface card (NIC) - hardware that
allows a computer to connect to the Internet through a network
or a high-speed Internet connection,
Internet Service Provider (ISP) - connects computers to the
Internet
- Wireless access
- Popular commercial ISPs
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Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 Features
• Web browser
– Software that allows the user to view certain types of Internet files in
an interactive environment
– URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
– Each web page on the Internet has unique URL
• Usually begin with http:// or https://
• Hyperlinks
– Visual elements on web pages that when clicked, load a specified
web document
• Images and text
– Can reference other web pages, e-mail addresses, files and more
– Download files
• Tabbed Browsing
– Allows the user to browse multiple pages without many windows
– Page Organization
• Using the History Feature
– List of previously visited URLs in chronological order
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Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 Features
• AutoComplete
– URLs from the history can be displayed in a drop-down list
when a user types a URL into the Address bar
• Off-Line Browsing
– Web pages can be saved directly to the computer’s hard
drive for off-line browsing
• Not connected to the Internet
• Downloads
– Files from the Internet may be copied to a computer’s hard
drive
• Applications
• Plug-ins
• Extensions
• Viewing Source Code
– Understand how the programmer created the page
– Learn how to develop your own pages
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Explorer 7
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Firefox 2.
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Thank You for listening
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