Browsers - history, tips & tricks

Surf much?

In den beginne was er ...

20 jaar later …

R.I.P. ARPA NET

Our new hero: Tim Berners-Lee

MOSAIC - De eerste “echte” browser

Good old Netscape (1994)

Opera verschijnt op het toneel (1994)

HTML 2.0 (1995)

The IETF created an HTML Working Group, which completed first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based

1996 - let the browser wars begin

Netscape Navigator 3 vs. Internet Explorer 3

HTML 3.2 & 4 (1997)

3.2 was the 1st version by the W3C4.0 met 3 variaties en css

2004 - Firefox 1.0 <3

Firefox,

the phoenix that rose from the ashes of Netscape

Google Chrome (2008)

Standaarden …

HTML 5 (2014)

Linux browsers

● Links● ELinks● Line-mode browser● Lynx● w3m

GUI browsers on linux

Browser engines - timeline

Browser engines - webkit

KDE’s Konquerer -> KHTML KHTML -> webKit (used in Safari / Chrome)fork webKit -> blink (used Chrome/Opera)

Browser engines - Gecko

OpensourceMozillaFirefox

Browser engines - Trident

Used by Internet Explorer and applications on the Microsoft Windows platform

Fork Spartan (Windows 10)

Evolutie gebruik

Features aka. monkey see monkey do

- tabbed browsing & tab pinning- plugins, extensions and addons (!chromeos)- account & bookmark synchronisation- full screen modus- developer bar F12

- note: FFOS development via FF

More features

- private browsing- search on the url bar- download manager- fishing en malware protection- ...

Linux challenges

Certain websites require certain functionality:TinkerCAD - Requires webgl -> firefox and some config tinkeringNetflix - Requires special Chrome download and some minor tinkering

Global challenges