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Apache Tapestry

; Post/Redirect/Get : Most form submissions follow the Post/Redirect/Get (PRG) pattern, which reduces multiple form submission accidents and makes URLs friendlier and more bookmarkable, along with enabling the browser Back and Refresh buttons to operate normally.

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.

Artix Entertainment

(often abbreviated to AE) is an independent video game developer and publisher that creates browser-based role-playing games using the Flash and Unity engines, and has recently begun developing games for mobile platforms including iOS and Android.

Blocking of YouTube videos in Germany

A common way of viewing blocked videos in Germany is to use browser add-ons that fake a foreign IP address, which are available for all common browsers and Spotify, in some cases these add-ons even come prebundled with the browser setup.

Bookmarklet

Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page.

Browser wars

During December 2009 and January 2010, StatCounter reported that its statistics indicated that Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser, when counting individual browser versions, passing Internet Explorer 7 and 8 by a small margin.

Certificate authority

Comodo Group CEO Melih Abdulhayoğlu organized the first meeting and is considered the founder of the CA/Browser Forum.

Consonant

:* IPA chart pulmonic consonants with audio - (requires browser with JavaScript)

Content sniffing

For instance, Internet Explorer 7 may be tricked to run JScript in circumvention of its policy by allowing the browser to guess that an HTML-file was encoded in UTF-7.

Digital Earth

UNEP began actively testing prototypes for a UNEP geo-browser beginning in mid-2001 with a showcase for the African community displayed at the 5th African GIS Conference in Nairobi, Kenya November 2001.

Digital Marketing in Brazil

Customers are offered a range of ways to use the service efficiently, either by browsing on PC or the well-optimised mobile site, using the free mobile app, or by downloading the Buscapé Time browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Eric Vishria

In October 2008, Vishria left HP to co-found RockMelt with Tim Howes, and launched the RockMelt social browser in limited beta in November 2010.

Far-Play

In order to participate in the locative aspects of fAR-Play games, users must have an Android or iOS mobile device and access to wireless internet.

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.

GraphicConverter

The application features a batch processor, slideshow mode, image preview browser, and access to metadata comments (such as XMP, Exif, and IPTC).

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.

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.

Instant WebKiosk

Instant WebKiosk/UB, Unrestricted Browsing, is a live, browser-only (only browser interface will show up) operating system designed for web kiosks and multi-user web workstations: it is a fully customizable operating system for Internet browsing purposes, which protects privacy; users can change its settings but after a reset the operating system defaults to original values, except for persistent settings.

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 Explorer for UNIX

Tod Nielsen, general manager of Microsoft's developer relations group, jokingly declared that he wanted to hold the launch of the browser at the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in San Francisco due to the skepticism by those who believed the project was vaporware.

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.

Kalydo

Games running on Kalydo do so via the proprietary Kalydo Player plugin and can run in a browser, or from the PC desktop.

Kazehakase

The browser is named after the short story "Kazehakase" by the Japanese author Ango Sakaguchi; its literal meaning is "Dr Wind" (a PhD rather than a medical doctor).

Mammon in popular culture

Mozilla Firefox – In The Book of Mozilla easter egg found on the Mozilla Firefox browser, the term Mammon is used to refer metaphorically to Microsoft Internet Explorer.

ManagerZone

ManagerZone, also known as MZ, is a massively multiplayer online browser-based sports game by the Swedish developer Power Challenge.

Memory-prediction framework

It is proposed that the motor areas of the cortex consist of a behavioural hierarchy similar to the sensory hierarchy, with the lowest levels consisting of explicit motor commands to musculature and the highest levels corresponding to abstract prescriptions (e.g. 'resize the browser').

ModPlug

ModPlug Player, a module player developed in conjunction with the original ModPlug Tracker project and the original ModPlug browser plugin

MultiWeb Internet Browser

The browser was developed by the Equity Access Research and Development Group at Deakin University under a grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

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.

Netscape Navigator 9

After AOL outsourced the development of Netscape Browser 8 to Mercurial Communications in 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 marked the first Netscape browser to be produced in-house since Netscape 7.

Odysseys

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

Oil Barons

Oil Barons is both a strategy and simulation-type, turn-based game, published by Epyx in 1983.

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

PBBGs can provide the depth of experience and sustainability seen in some application-based games, but because they don't require any special software to play, they are more accessible and portable than such games.

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.

Quake Army Knife

At this point it was renamed to QuArK, which stands for "Quake Army Knife", named so in reference to the game engine series it supported, the Quake engines, and for Swiss Army knife, because it could not only edit maps, but included a model editor and texture browser as well.

Robin Lane Fox

He is the father of entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, who co-founded Lastminute.com, and Henry Lane Fox, CEO of The Browser website.

Sony Ericsson K610i

It has a slightly bigger 1.9 inch, 262,000 colour, 176×220 pixel TFT LCD screen, built-in email client, WAP and HTML browser and a D-pad for navigation.

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.

Spil Games

The games on Spil Group websites are mostly free browser-based Flash casual games, both single and multiplayer.

Structural Classification of Proteins database

The "TaxId" is the taxonomy ID number; it is also a link to the NCBI taxonomy browser, which provides more information about the species to which the protein belongs.

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.

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.

The Book of Mozilla

"Beast reborn" could also be a reference to Netscape reopening their browser division instead of outsourcing development; Netscape Browser 8 was produced by Mercurial Communications.

VI Technology

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

Vitalize!

Vitalize! is a browser plugin created by Clickteam which processes and displays applications with a .

WapTV

The WTVML microbrowser is currently available only as an OpenTV application, although an MHP version of the Waptv browser has been built for demonstration and proof of concept.

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.

WebRunner

Mozilla Prism, a discontinued XULRunner site-specific browser, now being maintained under its former name of WebRunner

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.


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