Browser

Browser

Defenition: a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable to display, especially for a program in use for the World Wide Web. (Source: [|Dictionary.com])

A web browser is a software application which lets a user display and interact with texts, images, videos, music, games, and any other information that is located on a web page on a website on the World Wide Web or local area network. Text and images on a web page can contain hyperlinks to other web pages at the same or different website. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many web pages at many web sites by traversing these links. Although browsers are typically used to access the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or content in file systems.

The purpose of a web browser is to display web pages to the user. This process begins when the user inputs a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for example, //http://en.wikipedia.org//, into the browser. The prefix of the URI determines how the URI will be interpreted. The most commonly used kind of URI starts with //http:// and identifies content to be retrieved over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Many browsers also support a variety of other prefixes, such as //https:// for HTTPS, //ftp:// for the File Transfer Protocol, and //file////:// for local files. Prefixes that the web browser cannot directly handle are often handed off to another application entirely. For example, //mailto:// URIs are usually passed into the user's default e-mail application, and //news:// URIs are passed to the user's default newsgroup reader. (Source: [|Wikipedia])

Here is an example of a Browser: (Source: [|Google Images] )