Web Technologies - Old Questions

11.  What are the essential features of web browser? Explain.

Browsers are software programs that allow you to search and view the many different kinds of information that's available on the World Wide Web.

Essential Features of web browser:

1. The Web browser should be able to look at the Web pages throughout Internet or to connect to various sites to access information, explore resources and have fun.

2. The Web browser must enable you to follow the hyperlinks on a Web and type in a URL for it to follow.

3. Another feature of browser is to have a number of other commands readily available through menus, icons, and buttons.

4. Your browser ought to include an easy way to get on-line help as well as built in links to other resources on the Web that can give you helps or answer your questions.

5. One of the main feature of a browser is to search the information on the current page as well as search the WWW itself.

6. Browser give you the facility to save a Web page in a file on your com pull print a Web page on your computer, and send the contents of a Web page e-Mail to others on the Internet.

7. Few Web browser are complete Internet package, means they come with components like e-Mail client, newsgroup client an HTML composer, telnet client, ftp client, etc.

8. Web browser should be able to handle text, images of the World Wide Web, as well as the hyperlinks to digital video, or other types of information.

9. The most important feature of any browser is ease of use. While all Web browser  are fundamentally simple to use, the one you settle on should be very easy to work with; it should function as a transparent window onto the Web.