browser

browser

Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used “point-and-click” graphical manipulations. Such Web browsers interpret the HTML tags in downloaded documents and format the displayed data according to a set of standard style rules. Netscape Navigator became the dominant Web browser soon after its release in 1994; Microsoft's Internet Explorer was introduced a year later and has become widespread.

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browser

A program that lets you look through a collection of data. See Web browser, microbrowser, class browser and browse.

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browser

Computing a software package that enables a user to find and read hypertext files, esp on the World Wide Web

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browser [′braüz·ər]

(computer science)

An interactive program (client) that requests, retrieves, and displays pages from the World Wide Web.

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(hypertext)

browser - A program which allows a person to read hypertext. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of nodes (or "pages") and of navigating from one node to another. Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Lynx, and W3 are examples for browsers for the World-Wide Web. They act as clients to remote web servers.