Safari 3.1.2 is the default browser of the Mac OS X operating system by
Apple Computer. Safari is fast, easy to use and was a real joy with its faster-loading Web pages and faster browsing. Internet Explorer is also available for the OS X operating system but in tests at home, Internet Explorer was slower-loading and I was unable to edit text on a local HTML page using Internet Explorer for the Mac OS X G4 system and the "View, Source". Hands down, Safari was faster on the Mac G4 OS X machine.
Mac OS X users and Windows PC users using XP or Vista can download
Safari 3.1.2.
Note: The Mac and iMacs now utilize an Intel processor. Leopard is the current operating system version and Snow Leopard will be next, with hoopla.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is the browser belonging to
Microsoft Corporation.
They distribute this browser (free-of-charge) as freeware over the Internet. It is also
known as Microsoft Internet Explorer and is abbreviated "MSIE" or "IE". Version 7 is current but version 8 is in Beta 2 release.
As far as the browsers go, this is the browser I like best when hand coding HTML documents in NotePad and checking the page in this browser. Open the Windows Explorer to locate the HTML document on the local computer you wish to edit. Click/or double click on the Web document to open it in a browser window such as in Internet Explorer then Click on View, Source in the browser menu bar, make an editing change on the local computer's Web page's code document, and hit the F5 key to refresh the Web page. You can toggle the pages back and forth between the viewable Web page and the source code by using Alt + Tab (to toggle the editing pages of the browser and the source code).
Internet Explorer 8 World-Wide Sites
Internet Explorer 8 Beta2 for XP Computers in English language download site
Security TechCenter at Microsoft
Microsoft Security Bulletin Search
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Earlier Versions of this Browser
See
Intro. to DHTML for technologies
supported by the 4.x generation of Microsoft Internet Explorer. The
SMIL-Boston draft specification for full multimedia presentation was published by the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was also supported in Internet Explorer version 6.
With add-Ons a user may now view
MP4 streaming video files using this browser. MP3 is supported with
Real Player and other audio add-ons.
Many users are unhappy with security problems associated with Internet Explorer. When using this browser please be sure to get the security patches and any available service packs associated with Internet Explorer... and keep visiting Microsoft to find out when new security patches become available, or sign up for the e-mail notification of security patches and service packs as they become available for Microsoft's various software products.
ViewLink OverviewViewLink was a new feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 -- a feature of element behaviors that enables you to write fully encapsulated Dynamic HTML (DHTML) behaviors and import them as robust custom elements in a Web page. Viewlinked document content, otherwise known as the document fragment, renders and behaves as regular HTML content in the main Web page. Either binary DHTML behaviors or scripted HTML Component (HTC) can be used to implement an element behavior with a viewlink, but this overview focuses primarily on the use of viewlink in scripted HTC files.
OLD BROWSERS and software storage: Many earlier Microsoft Internet Explorer Download Sites are no longer available, such as IE5. When you download any zipped file from Microsoft, and before you click on the file icon to decompress or unzip the file, SAVE IT as a copy, in a different location such as on a CD-R disk, or on a Zip drive disk or other external storage. The reason you want a compressed copy of the file is so that the program can be restored in the event of a hard-drive catastrophe. Microsoft does not publicly archive back versions of browsers for download from their Web site, unless they are doing so from a URL not known to us. The Microsoft site is not always easy to navigate or to find what you want.
Prior Versions: Many programmers and developers need back-version availability (such as for using Visual Studio 6.0). I prefer the MSIE browser version 5.2.x on my personal computer since it is compatible with the .dll files of Visual Studio 6.0. MSIE v. 5.2 shipped with Visual Studio 6.0.
Always keep backup files of software (including an extra copy of any browser download) in a secure place that is cool and dry. Consider having two backup copies of important software so that one copy can be stored in a separate building, a bank safety deposit box, or at home or work.
AOL Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a browser which was created by Mark Andreesen and
his team for Netscape Communications Corporation which Mr. Andreesen co-founded. Navigator was
distributed over the Web as freeware, and free downloads are still available to AOL users. Netscape Navigator was acquired by AOL.COM. Their newer versions still had some proprietary features and did not support all of the features of CSS-P, CSS, and DHTML.
Last I checked, all of my links for this browser came up with 404 errors for "File Not Found". I still keep a copy of Netscape Navigator on a disk. I not longer use this browser. Newer technologies were not supported, such as the CSS-P, a technology incorportated into the coined phrase of DHTML for Dynamic HTML, a marketing term at one time used by Netscape and Microsoft to describe the features in their version 4 browsers.
Opera
Opera Software is the Norwegian developer of the Opera Browser. This browser had a US "registration fee" of $35.00> Now you can
try Opera (free) for several operating systems, including for Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2, symbian OS.
This software takes up very little space on the hard drive in comparison to Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Read about the features of
this browser and additional information about Opera in the links below.
Additional Information about Opera Browser
NCSA Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic is a client browser that was developed at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain.
It was one of the earliest graphical user interface (GUI) browsers. The NCSA Mosaic for X developers were Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen. The NCSA Mosaic Web sites at ncsa.uiuc.edu are no longer available... not one of the previous links nor download sites is working.
[NCSA Mosaic sites no longer available... archive no longer available]
Mozilla
AMAYA, JIGSAW and OTHERS
What is Amaya?
The
Amaya editor/browser is a browser/authoring tool available for downloading from W3C.org. It is used to demonstrate and test many of the new developments in Web protocols and data formats. Given the very fast moving nature of Web technology, Amaya has a central role to play. It is versatile and extensible and is available for the following operating systems: Windows:NT/2000/XP (formerly also 95,98); Mac OS X; Linux: Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE; and Debian.
Amaya is a free browser available for downloading from the
Amaya site at W3C.
Lynx Sources and Resources A text- and Lynx-based DOS web browser
Bobcat, Lynx-Based DOS Web Browser (scroll down the page to this section.
Jigsaw is the counterpart of Amaya, but for the server side. It is open source.
Jigsaw Known BugsSpeech-Enabled Browsers
The technologies for speech-enabled browsers are under development and some are available now. It will be just a matter of time
until speech-enabled browsers become available to end-users. The links in this section are for further study.
