What is a Web Browser? What are the Various Parts of a Browser Window?
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A web browser is one of many
software applications that functions as the interface between a user and the
Internet. The browser not only sends messages to web servers to retrieve your
page requests, but also renders the HTML code once it arrives. That is, the
browser interprets the code and displays the code and displays the results on
the screen. Auxiliary programs such as helper
applications and plug-ins can be
configured.
Popular browsers include Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer, Fire fox, Netscape Navigator, Mosaic and Lynx. The first few
are graphical based web browser, whereas Lynx is text-only browser.
The following are Important
components of Browser Window:
Title
bar: The location where the documents title is displayed.
Menu
bar:The place showing the headings of the main
pull-down command menus.
Tool
bar:These are providing across to a number of
single mouse click commands.
Location: The
area where the Uniform Resource Locator
(URL) of the document is displayed.
Hot
buttons: Single-click buttons that provide a
number of convenient features.
Scroll
bar: Arrows that allow the user to display a different part
of a large document.
Document
Area: The part of
the window that is used for displaying the currently loaded window.
Status
bar: A field used
to convey helpful information to the user, such as a URL or programmer
specified message.
Hyperlink: A
highlighted part of a document that, when selected, causes the browser to
retrieve a display a new document.