MAKAYLA HOLLANDComputer Applications I

Period 4

WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR WEB BROWSER?

Internet Explorer With last version you have acces to new

internet features like RSS and blogs.IE7 supports multiple tabs and havs incorporated the classic menu with advanced printing,settings for security and safety while searching over the internet.Have included the Outlook Expres email client,like Firefox have Thunderbird email client.

SECOND MOST POPULAR WEB BROWSER

Mozilla Firefox Web browser descended from the

Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation.

SAFARI

Fastest on any platform. With page load speeds that outperform every other major browser on the Mac or PC, Safari also introduces a few new features to the mix.

ADD-ONS

Refers to a product designed to complement another product

PLUG-IN consists of a computer program that interacts

with a host application (a web browser or an email client, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand

Examples Rockbox, a firmware for digital audio players, can

use plug-ins, for example: play games, use the text editor

Email clients use plug-ins to decrypt and encrypt email (Pretty Good Privacy) or to send oversized email attachments (Globalscape Mail Express)

Graphics software use plug-ins to support file formats and process images (Adobe Photoshop)

Media players use plug-ins to support file formats and apply filters (foobar2000, GStreamer, Quintessential, VST, Winamp, XMMS)

ADOBE FLASH

multimedia platform created by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems.

MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT

programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback that characterizes rich Internet applications

1ST WEB BROWSER

WorldWideWeb Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World

Wide Web together with Robert Cailliau, built the first working prototype in late 1990 and early 1991.