Not every World Wide Web browser sees the images that appear on Web pages. Berners Lee s first browser didn t show images, and some people use text-based browsers that can t show images at all. Some visually-impaired folks use voice browsers that read the contents of HTML pages to them. So the World Wide Web is a different world for different people everyone can view it in several different ways. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer.
Lynx is a popular text-based browser.
Opera and iCab are alternative browsers that show images but are smaller than the two big boys. America Online uses a version of Internet Explorer to display World Wide Web pages. Though the World Wide Web Consortium governs the way HTML works, it doesn t dictate the way pages look when they show up on any particular browser. That means you could put two computers side by side and see the same page two totally different ways. HTML isn t the only language spoken on the Web.