History of Web Browser

Opera

Opera started out as a research project in Norway's telecom company,Telenor, in 1994 , and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. It runs on a variety of operating systems including many versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.

Opera started out as a research project in Norway's telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. It runs on a variety of operating systems including many versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.

We can see the use of Opera in mobile phones, smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants, game consoles and interactive televisions. The Opera browser (known as "the third browser", after Internet Explorer and Netscape) has received international acclaim from end-users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers.

It supports all main Web standards currently in use, including CSS 2.1, HTML 4.01, XHTML1.1, HTTP1.1, DOM 2, ECMAScript (JavaScript), PNG, WML 2.0, SVG 1.1 tiny, Unicode, and the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.

There are following features in Opera:

Opera has automatic Popup Blocking. This if fine for stopping annoying popup ads, but not so good for sites using popup windows in a good way. Tabbed Browsing is a modern and time saving feature. It makes it possible to view many web pages in one browser window.

Transfers Panel is Opera's download manager, with quick access to ongoing and recently finished downloads. Opera's user interface is translated into multiple languages, and the language can be changed on the fly.

Opera has Customizable Toolbars, allowing the users to add and remove items as well as create new toolbars. By choosing between different Skins, the users can change the look and feel of Opera. Opera has direct access to Google's "related pages" feature, available from the "Navigation" menu.

Double clicking on a word on a page will pop up a menu that provides options related to the selected text, such as a Web, dictionary or encyclopedia search. Opera provides Web authors with immediate access to Page Validation, thus encouraging good practices on the Web.

Opera

On January 7, 2003, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had developed their own web browser called Safari based on the KHTML libraries that also power Konqueror is available as part of Mac OS X.

Safari is Apple's internet browser for Macintosh computers running OS X v. 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. It is installed in all public labs as well as on all faculty and staff computers.