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9 unusual facts about Web browser


Array Networks

Enterprise users access the network through any standard browser.

Ars Technica

On March 5, 2010, Ars Technica experimentally blocked readers who used Adblock Plus—one of several computer programs that stop advertisements from being displayed in their browser—from viewing the website.

Cloaking

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser.

File URI scheme

(The double slash // should always appear in a file URL according to the specification, but in practice many Web browsers allow you to omit it)

Hattrick

Other CHPP applications include Friendly Cup Assistants, browser plugins, online betting.

Identrust

The or Trust Gate approach to identity authentication prevents Man-in-the-Browser and Man-in-the-Middle fraud by providing a totally safe browser with a real-time identity validation, and a totally remote device for loading certificates and software drivers.

Internet chess server

In addition to standalone clients, many servers also offer Java interfaces that can be used directly from a Web browser.

Internet in Egypt

ISPs stated that the 150GB quota was huge and users could download up to 60 large movies, 10,000 large songs, browse endlessly and send up to 2 million e-mails a month.

Internet time

This development strategy, called "release early, release often", was perhaps epitomized in the development of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.


AirMosaic

AirMosaic was an early commercial web browser based on the NCSA Mosaic browser.

Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.

BeOS R5.1d0

In a potential move towards releasing the system as open source software, many proprietary items had been removed: the MP3 encoder was replaced with LAME, and OpenSSL replaced the RSA Encryption Engine in the NetPositive web browser.

Camino

Mike Pinkerton had been the technical lead of the Camino project since Dave Hyatt moved to the Safari team at Apple Inc. in mid-2002.

Comparison of the Java and .NET platforms

Rather than using Java, HD DVD (the defunct high definition successor to DVD) used a technology jointly developed by Microsoft and Disney called HDi that was based on XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies that are comparable to those used by standard Web browsers.

Drag and drop

Google's web-based e-mail application Gmail supports drag-and-drop of images and attachments in the latest Google Chrome browser and Apple's Safari (5.x).

Font embedding

Currently, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome support automatic downloading of fonts used on a website using CSS2 or CSS3.

Font substitution

Major modern web browsers are capable of font substitution (with the exception of versions of Internet Explorer older than version 7).

Geoffrey Arone

Prior to SafetyWeb, Arone was the CEO and co-founder of DanceJam with MC Hammer and Flock co-founder Anthony Young.

History of OS X

Mountain Lion also includes more Chinese features including support for Baidu as an option for Safari search engine, QQ, 163.com and 126.com services for Mail, Contacts and Calendar, Youku, Tudou and Sina Weibo are integrated into share sheets.

HyTelnet

This is a simple reconstruction of the HyTelnet database, converted into flat HTML files suitable for any Web browser.

IBench

At the 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs used a modified version of iBench 5.0 to show the render speed of Safari 3.0 versus Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP.

IWork

This allows the user to edit and create documents on the web, using one of the supported browsers; currently Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer.

James H. Clark

In 1993 Clark met Marc Andreessen who had led the development of Mosaic, the first widely distributed and easy-to-use software for browsing the World Wide Web, while employed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

JPEG Network Graphics

For example, Konqueror has native MNG/JNG support, and MNG/JNG plugins are available for Opera, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox.

Keycode

scancode, the parcel of data generated when pressing a computer keyboard key (for instance, in the X Window core protocol or raised in ECMAScript when using a web browser);

Lemon chiffon

These were adopted for the Netscape Navigator web browser for colors in its extended palette, and in turn recognized by Mosaic and Internet Explorer.

Liberty Accounts

It delivers HTML in a cross-platform web browser environment, hosted in the UK in a secure data centre.

Microsoft Agent

However, web page agents are only compatible with Internet Explorer, since alternative browsers like Opera or Mozilla Firefox do not support ActiveX.

Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator was based on the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen, a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a student at the University of Illinois.

Nicola Pellow

Almost immediately after Berners-Lee completed the WorldWideWeb web browser for the NeXT platform, Pellow wrote a generic Line Mode Browser called WWW that could run on non-NeXT systems.

Nokia IPSO

Up to that point, JavaScript and frames had been avoided in order to facilitate the use of Lynx as a command line interface.

Open world

Examples include in-game web browsers in EVE Online and The Matrix Online; XML integration tools and programming languages in Second Life; shifting exchange rates in Entropia Universe; and the complex object-and-grammar system used to solve puzzles in Scribblenauts.

Open-source bounty

While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.

Page zooming

It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people using mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobiles which have a relatively small screen.

Plain text

Many other computer programs are also capable of processing or creating plain text, such as countless commands in DOS, Windows, Mac OS, and Unix and its kin; as well as web browsers (a few browsers such as Lynx and the Line Mode Browser produce only plain text for display).

Rockmelt

Rockmelt was a proprietary social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria based on the Google Chromium project, incorporating social media features such as Facebook chat, Twitter notifications and widgetised areas for other content providers such as YouTube and local newspapers.

Silicon Snake Oil

Although the internet took a diffent path than predicted in Silicon Snake Oil, it does provide a good description of surfing the World Wide Web when Mosaic (web browser) was the only web browser, Gopher (protocol) was used to find documents and the Bulletin board system required users to call another computer's modem.

Tapulous

Its co-founders were Bart Decrem, an entrepreneur who helped launch the Firefox browser and was the founding CEO of Flock, Inc. and Andrew Lacy, a consultant of McKinsey & Company.

Voice Operator Panel

Voice Operator Panel (VOP) is a professional SIP softphone for operators and receptionists with Outlook/LDAP/XMPP/MSN/CRM integration, built-in web browser and e-mailer.

Web browser engine

KDE's open-source KHTML engine is used in KDE's Konqueror web browser and was the basis for WebKit, the rendering engine in Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome web browsers, which is now the most widely used browser engine according to StatCounter.

Web interoperability

Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards.

XSLT elements

Client-side XSLT can be implemented in a browser by adding a line like the following to the source XML file, right after the root XML tag.


see also

Belarc

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of installed software and hardware, missing security patches, anti-virus status, and NIST SCAP security configurations (USGCB, FDCC) and displays the results in a Web browser.

Defence Information Infrastructure

Their approach is in essence to leverage Microsoft Windows XP (and future Windows platforms) together with the web browser Internet Explorer to access a VPN.

Do Not Track

In July 2009, researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm created a prototype add-on for the Firefox web browser, implementing support for the Do Not Track header.

Fashion S9110

The Fashion S9110 has a multimedia player and recorder for music (mp3) and video (mp4), a WAP 2.0 web browser, a 1.3MP camera, FM radio, Compass basic handwriting recognition and an e-reader that supports only text files.

Google OS

Chrome OS, a software platform that incorporates the Google Chrome web browser

Gregory Weir

Weir writes most of his games in a language called ActionScript 3 for the Flash platform, with the intent that they be played in a web browser.

Heap spraying

Many web browser exploits that use heap spraying consist only of a heap spray that is copy-pasted from a previous exploit combined with a small piece of script or HTML that triggers the vulnerability.

Hopatcong High School

Joe Hewitt, software programmer best known for his work on the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

IBM Lotus iNotes

IBM iNotes allows users of IBM Notes to access their Domino-based mail, calendar, schedule, to-do list, contacts, and notebook (Notes Journal) from any computer which has a certified web-browser and an Internet connection.

Interface Builder

One notable early use of Interface Builder was the development of a graphical WorldWideWeb web browser by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN using a NeXT workstation.

Internet OS

Microsoft and Intel in response to this challenge put forward a standard for a competing model called the NetPC, a diskless PC that would be primarily adapted to web browser use and would run a simplified version of Windows 95, codenamed Pegasus.

New Lisbon, Wisconsin

Marc Andreessen grew up in New Lisbon and would later create the first web browser.

Nicola Pellow

She left CERN at the end of August 1991, but returned after graduating in 1992, and worked with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW, the first web browser for Mac OS.

Nokia 9300

All variants of the 9300 include multi-profile Bluetooth and IR for interoperability, the Opera web browser, a POP3/IMAP/BlackBerry Enterprise Server-compatible/SMS/MMS e-mail and messaging client, the ability to create, read, write and edit native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

Odysseys

Odysseys is a WebKit based web browser developed by Forgotten Software Inc., based on the work of Tominated Software.

Open Reporting Application

Using a standard web browser, ORA enables users to share, print, create, modify and save reports in the popular formats of HTML, PDF and XLS.

Opnode

This controller works as 1-Wire master so that users can manage the endpoints easily from the xAP/xPL network or any web browser.

Persistent browser-based game

Games relying on client-side technology are rarer due to the security aspects that must be dealt with when reading and writing from a user's local file system - the web browser doesn't want web pages to be able to destroy the user's computer, and the game designer doesn't want the game files stored in an easily-accessed place where the user can edit them.

Planz

The document presented in a Planz window can be saved as an HTML file to be viewed in a web browser or edited in a word processor.

Seamonkey

Mozilla Application Suite or Seamonkey, a web browser suite and predecessor to SeaMonkey

Sony Ericsson T707

In terms of software, it uses the Access NetFront web browser and enables photo, video and text blogging.

Sony Ericsson W350i

The phone also has Internet software including RSS, a Web browser, WAP 2.0 XHTML, WAP 1.2.1, Web feeds, Access NetFront Web Browser and email.

T-comma

The Windows version of the Firefox web browser is able to generate S-comma and T-comma, even if the characters are missing from the system's fonts.

Ubidesk

Provided as Software as a service, Ubidesk is platform independent and accessible via a web-browser without installing any application on the client side.

VI Technology

Authorized users can access test results from anywhere on the network using a Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

We Used to Wait

The song is also part of the experimental project The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive music video to tout the HTML 5 strengths of the Google Chrome web browser.

Web application

Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers, and the convenience of using a web browser as a client, sometimes called a thin client.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.