browser
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It's what you're probably using to read this right now. A browser, or web browser (same thing), is the program people use as their interface to the World Wide Web. It interprets HTML code including text, images, hypertext links, java applets, etc. allowing you to view web sites and navigate from one to another.
Phoenix (hah, really old, this was Firefox before it was Firebird even ;)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Netscape http://www.netscape.com/computing/download/
Opera http://www.opera.com/download/
Lynx http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/lynx/
Lynx for DOS/Windows http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm
w3m http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w3m/
Apple Safari http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Mosaic http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/mosaic-w/releaseinfo/download.html
Konqueror http://www.konqueror.org/
Wikipedia:List_of_web_browsers
Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
SlipKnot http://www.micromind.com/slipknot.htm
SeaMonkey http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
3B (3D-browser) http://www.3b.net/browser/how3bworks.html
Salamander http://members.tripod.com/OskarK/salamander.html
Avant http://avantbrowser.com/
Arachne http://home.arachne.cz/
X-Smiles http://www.xsmiles.org/index.html
 | This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for browser - Next: BRS, Prev: Brooks's Law |
| :browser: /n./ A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a browser without qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser. | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |
