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Understanding web browsers
From the course: Introduction to Web Design and Development
Understanding web browsers
- A web browser is the software you use to see websites. There are many names, but you might be most familiar with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge and Internet Explorer. There are other browser packages out there, but these are the ones that are most used. A browser is designed to communicate with the web server, request pages, receive those pages, and display the code, images, video, audio, and other assets received inside of a webpage. Browsers understand only three types of code; HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We'll go through these technologies in a later chapter. For now, these technologies work together to create a beautiful, meaningful, interactive webpage. The W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, writes the standards for HTML, CSS and JavaScript among other technologies. The specifications describe exactly how the code should work and function. The browser manufacturers should follow these specifications exactly so all webpages work the same way. Furthermore browsers may display…
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