Computers reading the Web pages are called Web clients . Web clients view the pages with a program called a Web browser . Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator . A browser fetches a Web page from a server by a request . A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address .
All Web pages contain instructions on how to be displayed .
The browser displays the page by reading these instructions . The most common display instructions are called HTML tags . The Web standards are not made up by Netscape or Microsoft. The rule-making body of the Web is the W3C . W3C stands for the World Wide Web Consortium .