Howell Gerard Casiple BSIT2C

Week 1 Research Task

Browser is an application used to access and view websites, Common web browsers include
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari, The Web
browser which displays the results on the computer or other Internet-enabled device that supports
a browser. How Browser affects user web experiences, Browsers are one of the most important
parts of a user’s web experience; which browser you are using can have a very large effect on
how the websites you visit look and behave. So clearly, understanding how browsers work will
be important for you so you can understand fully how your customers will experience your new
website once it is complete.

First, it’s important to understand how a web browser actually works.When a user visits a
website, the browser sends a request for that page to the server, which sends back a whole bunch
of code in return. In order to display the page correctly, the browser has to know how to read and
interpret that code correctly. This is done by something called a rendering engine.The guidelines
for how a particular piece of code should appear to the user is laid out in detailed specifications,
but how each rendering engine actually goes about interpreting the code is different from engine
to engine. This individualized approach can lead to a website looking different in different
browsers.

Disadvantages

Brittle When browser-vendors created new vocabularies, those vocabularies would make
pages 'break' in competitors' browsers. The W3C's efforts to call a halt to new vocabulary
development mostly froze a set of compromises in place.

Underpowered HTML never really did all the tasks developers wanted it to do. Part structure,
part formatting, this creature of convenience wasn't always convenient.

Server-Centric Because Web browsers provided only a very limited set of capabilities for
processing information in the browser client, servers had an enormous amount of work to do.

Focused narrowly on computer-human communication .The formatting and document

description aspects of HTML made it nearly impossible for automated tools to use HTML to
communicate with each other.