The Meaning of an Internet Browser
An Internet browser is a program that can read and display information that was written in the Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML. Documents are transferred from web servers to the browser using the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. An Internet browser is more formally referred to as a web client.
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The World Wide Web
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The World Wide Web is an international collection of documents written in HTML and linked to each other using the link feature of HTML. Internet browsers are the programs that display this information to the user and accept commands to navigate to related pages.
HTML Display
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Browsers have different features and capabilities, but most operate on a standard set of HTML formatting commands. The original purpose of the browser was simply to display posted content and let users link to related documents.
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Active Content
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As the World Wide Web evolved, many sites started to add active content, including scripts that could be downloaded and executed on the local computer. Sites also allow the browser to collect information from the user and post it to the server. These are where the main differences exist in internet browsers today. Web designers developing active content must include tests within the code to determine which browser is in use, since active content function calls vary from browser to browser.
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