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Gecko vs. Trident
Many people use the Internet, a realm which used to belong among tech geeks. However, an ordinary Internet user would have no idea about its minute details, such as the fact that different web browsers use different software such as layout engines.A layout engine takes a web page's markup languages like HTML as well as its formatting information like CSS, and then displays the formatted cont... [Read More]
Trident Layout Engine
For Internet browsers, a layout engine (also known as rendering engine) is a type of software that takes a web page's markup language such as HTML and formatting information like from CSS and displays the formatted content on the screen. It is also known as the Internet's "painter." We presented Gecko the last time, and this article now introduces its readers to Trident.What ... [Read More]
Introducing Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a new web browser developed by search engine giant Google. Built with open source code and released in its beta version on September 2, 2008, Google Chrome aims to add some innovations to some standard web browsing features that people have grown accustomed with and provide improvements to the web browsing experience. User InterfaceJust like the Google search engine, Chrome takes ... [Read More]
Nokia Series 40 Platform
The Nokia Series 40 is a mobile device platform. It is considered as the world's most widely used mobile platform and is found in more than 100 million mobile devices. This is what makes the Nokia Series 40 platform so important apart from being able to provide a means to make even mass market mobile device users access to the Internet through such mobile gadgets. The Nokia Series 40 makes use of ... [Read More]
Understanding WAP
WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol, is an open international standard used to enable Internet access to wireless mobile gadgets. The use of WAP allows cellphones and PDA's to enable users to have access over the Internet on such wireless platforms. A WAP browser may work similar to what a web browser does to a regular desktop. Before WAP was introduced, wireless mobile gadgets were limited in t... [Read More]
What Are Engine Layouts?
A layout engine is a type of software or computer program that allows web content as well as its formatting information to be displayed graphically on the computer screen. By reading code written in HTML, XML on image and text files and then consolidating it with the formatting code provided from CSS, XSL, etc. in order to display correctly on a web browser the content as well as the style that th... [Read More]
Exploring Mozilla Firefox 3
Mozilla has recently released its Firefox 3 web browser that contains several new features and improvements from the previous release. Aside from just being another web browser, Firefox 3 also has the distinction of being in the Guinness world record books for becoming the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Here are several of those new features and improvements that you might want to check out... [Read More]
What is Acid3?
Acid3 is an online test page that was developed to check how web browsers are able to follow certain web standards especially areas relating to DOM and JavaScript. The test is aimed at identifying web rendering flaws found in web browsers and authoring tools. The Acid3 test has been promoted by the Web Standards Project which encourages the use of web standards as recommended by the World Wide Web... [Read More]
Safari Browser for Beginners
Apple computers have been perceived as having a world on its own. It has its own office application suite called iWork, it lets you create your own home movies with ease through iMovie, and it also runs on its own web browser called Safari, which has been touted as the world's fastest browser because it loads faster-even on Javascript-compared to other brands. Recently, Windows version of Safari w... [Read More]
Opera Browser for Beginners
In a world filled with computers that are defaulted with Internet Explorer browser, many people think that there is no need to switch to other web browsers like Opera. They think that all web browsers are the same in function, without realizing that there are actually a lot of differences-specifically between Opera and Internet Explorer. Opera is considered by many tech writers as one of the faste... [Read More]