The Browser war
A recent public interview by Google focused on asking people “what is a browser?” and interestingly people dont really know what a browser is. Some ridiculous folks even said a browser is Windows XP. Irrespective of the ignorance of people on the term- which is not the point of this article. It is important people get to be informed of the capability of the browsers on their machines.
An internet browser is the tool or the means through which we surf the internet. Fundamently, there are five major browsers: Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Although the bulk of the internet users run Microsoft Internet Explorer on their computers simply because it comes bundled with Windows OS. But in all honesty, Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most backward with respect to rendering capabilities.
The most important parameter when measuring browser capability is the rendering engine being used by the browser. The speed of rendering and effectiveness of caching process goes with the engine. Each of the browser use different rendering engine or an enhancement of an effective rendering framework like the WebKit which currently runs the Safari and Google Chrome.
In the browser war, Chrome, Safari and Opera are at the forefront of innovative solutions. And Microsoft’s internet explorer is annoying retrogressing on a daily basis. And one keeps wondering why Microsoft just succeeded in turning the Explorer into a White lame elephant.
However way it is, there is the interesting feature I have in my favorite browser Google Chrome and it is the language translation bar- with it I get to read posts on facebook from my Russian friends, and its so amazing the efforts at the Google labs. And I keep wondering why the Microsoft’s engineer turned a blind eye to the innovations from Google.
Today, we must commend the Reader feature on the Safari- it is such a tool I cannot do without; and the turbo switch on Opera which accelerate surfing speed on slow networks is equally commendable. Equally important aside rendering capability is the scale of extensions available in the browser’s API. Firefox’s dominance in that arena is in no small way an easy feat.
There are many features available in the more forward oriented browser out there and they are worth giving a spin instead of getting stuck with a backward swirling browser.
The Browser war
A recent public interview by Google focused on asking people “what is a browser?” and interestingly people dont really know what a browser is. Some ridiculous folks even said a browser is Windows XP. Irrespective of the ignorance of people on the term- which is not the point of this article. It is important people get to be informed of the capability of the browsers on their machines.
An internet browser is the tool or the means through which we surf the internet. Fundamently, there are five major browsers: Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Although the bulk of the internet users run Microsoft Internet Explorer on their computers simply because it comes bundled with Windows OS. But in all honesty, Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most backward with respect to rendering capabilities.
The most important parameter when measuring browser capability is the rendering engine being used by the browser. The speed of rendering and effectiveness of caching process goes with the engine. Each of the browser use different rendering engine or an enhancement of an effective rendering framework like the WebKit which currently runs the Safari and Google Chrome.
In the browser war, Chrome, Safari and Opera are at the forefront of innovative solutions. And Microsoft’s internet explorer is annoying retrogressing on a daily basis. And one keeps wondering why Microsoft just succeeded in turning the Explorer into a White lame elephant.
However way it is, there is the interesting feature I have in my favorite browser Google Chrome and it is the language translation bar- with it I get to read posts on facebook from my Russian friends, and its so amazing the efforts at the Google labs. And I keep wondering why the Microsoft’s engineer turned a blind eye to the innovations from Google.
Today, we must commend the Reader feature on the Safari- it is such a tool I cannot do without; and the turbo switch on Opera which accelerate surfing speed on slow networks is equally commendable. Equally important aside rendering capability is the scale of extensions available in the browser’s API. Firefox’s dominance in that arena is in no small way an easy feat.
There are many features available in the more forward oriented browser out there and they are worth giving a spin instead of getting stuck with a backward swirling browser.
