History of Web Browser

Hot Java

There are many web browsers but you will find very interesting to get the information of Web Browsers and its development. A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Web browsers are used to navigate the information found on the Internet.

It allows you to retrieve the information spread across the Internet and display it by using the HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

There are some Web Browsers given bellow with their brief history:

1) HotJava:

HotJava is the web browser from Sun Microsystems that enables the display of interactive content on the Web using Java language. HotJava is written entirely in Java and demonstrates the capabilities of the Java programming language.

The first time when Java was developed and ported to the Internet, no browser ware available that could run Java applets. Although we can view a web page that includes Java applets with a regular browser but we will not gain any of benefits of Java.

HotJava is currently available for the SPARC/ Solaris Platform as well as Windows 95 and Windows NT.

There is a complexity that being a browser, it is nothing special and does not offer anything special that most other Web browsers don’t offer. Its biggest draw is that it was the first web browser to provide support for the Java language, thus making the Web browser more dynamic and interactive.