This is also true with respect to what the server can determine about your system. Understanding How Browsers Work Web browsers are central to your network implementation. Today's browsers are the desktops of tomorrow offering ready access not only to the information on your local system but also to the local network and to the Internet. Today browsers enable you to point and click your way around the network whether it's either the local or the worldwide network. When you view a page expect to see several different items.
Browsers retrieve information from a site as text and graphics.
The text that is received is in Hypertext Markup Language or HTML . HTML provides directives on the location and formatting of text pictures and hyperlinks. It's beyond the scope of this book to provide you with a complete reference for HTML . There are however many examples of how to use HTML to format pages. Other examples deal with many topics that concern your users including how to provide additional content functionality.