Web_browser

qas: question: What do people typically call a web browser?
answers: text: browser

question: What platform is a browser used on?
answers: text: World Wide Web

question: What does URL mean?
answers: text: Uniform Resource Identifier

question: What allows a person to direct their browser to a resource?
answers: text: Hyperlinks

question: What is the definition of the World Wide Web?

question: What helps identify the WWW?

question: What are examples of the WWW?

question: What does content present in applications help users do?

question: What is something that identifies how a video plays in a software application?
context: A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources.

qas: question: The primary function of a browser is to use what?
answers: text: the World Wide Web

question: In addition to accessing the Internet, browsers can also access info that is put there by web servers in what?
answers: text: private networks

question: A browser can also access files where?
answers: text: file systems

question: What can information access when used?

question: What are private networks primarily intended to use?

question: Where are browsers located?

question: Where is a browser so you are able to find it later?

question: The primary function of file systems is to use what?
context: Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems.

qas: question: When was the first browser created?
answers: text: 1990

question: Who invented the first browser?
answers: text: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

question: What was Berners-Lee a director of?
answers: text: the World Wide Web Consortium

question: What organization did Berners-Lee create?
answers: text: World Wide Web Foundation

question: When did Sir Tim Berners Le invent the WWW?

question: What was the W3C later renamed?

question: What does WordWideweb oversee?

question: What group did Nexus start?

question: What did Nexus invent in 1990?
context: The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. His browser was called WorldWideWeb and later renamed Nexus.

qas: question: Who released Mosaic?
answers: text: Marc Andreessen

question: When was Mosaic released?
answers: text: 1993

question: When Andreessen left the company he worked for, what new company did he start?
answers: text: Netscape

question: What browser did Andreessen release in 1994?
answers: text: Netscape Navigator

question: What did the World Wide Web help release in the 1990's?

question: What did the release of Mosaic in 1994 by NCSA lead to?

question: What company was started by Mosaic?

question: When was the NCSA Navigator released by Mosaic?

question: What percentage of web use did Mosaic have at its peak in 1993?
context: In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. Andreesen's browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s. The introduction of Mosaic in 1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the world's most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak (see usage share of web browsers).

qas: question: Who released the Internet Explorer browser?
answers: text: Microsoft

question: When did Microsoft release Internet Explorer?
answers: text: 1995

question: The release of Internet Explorer started the first what?
answers: text: browser war

question: What was bundled with Internet Explorer?
answers: text: Windows

question: When did Microsoft release Mosaic?

question: What did Microsoft releasing Mosaic cause?

question: What was Mosaic bundled with?

question: What did Mosaic gain after it was released by Microsoft?

question: By what percentage was Mosaic being used in 1995?
context: Microsoft responded with its Internet Explorer in 1995, also heavily influenced by Mosaic, initiating the industry's first browser war. Bundled with Windows, Internet Explorer gained dominance in the web browser market; Internet Explorer usage share peaked at over 95% by 2002.

qas: question: Opera was introduced in what year?
answers: text: 1996

question: What accounted for 1.1% of browser use in April 2011?
answers: text: Opera-mini version

question: Opera focused on which quickly growing market?
answers: text: mobile phone web browser

question: Opera is also available on which video game console?
answers: text: Nintendo's Wii

question: What program debuted in February 2012?

question: When was the Nintendo Wii introduced?

question: What market did Nintendo focus on to expand its use?

question: How has usage of the Nintendo Wii been shown over time?

question: How many game consoles has Nintendo sold?
context: Opera debuted in 1996; it has never achieved widespread use, having less than 2% browser usage share as of February 2012 according to Net Applications. Its Opera-mini version has an additive share, in April 2011 amounting to 1.1% of overall browser use, but focused on the fast-growing mobile phone web browser market, being preinstalled on over 40 million phones. It is also available on several other embedded systems, including Nintendo's Wii video game console.

qas: question: What did Netscape launch in 1998?
answers: text: Mozilla Foundation

question: Netscape wanted to have a competitive browser using what?
answers: text: open source software model

question: What was the resulting browser for the Mozilla Foundation?
answers: text: Firefox

question: When was Firefox released?
answers: text: late 2004

question: What did Firefox launch in 1998?

question: How much usage share did Netscape have in 1998?

question: At what point did open source software gain popularity?

question: What software model was released in 1998?

question: What percentage of the open source model did Netscape have shortly after release?
context: In 1998, Netscape launched what was to become the Mozilla Foundation in an attempt to produce a competitive browser using the open source software model. That browser would eventually evolve into Firefox, which developed a respectable following while still in the beta stage of development; shortly after the release of Firefox 1.0 in late 2004, Firefox (all versions) accounted for 7% of browser use. As of August 2011, Firefox has a 28% usage share.

qas: question: When was the first beta release for Safari?
answers: text: January 2003

question: Who created Safari?
answers: text: Apple

question: When was Apple founded?

question: When did web browsers become active?

question: When did the browser market become dominant in software?

question: How much software was released by Safari in January 2003?

question: When did the entire browser market begin beta release of software?
context: Apple's Safari had its first beta release in January 2003; as of April 2011, it had a dominant share of Apple-based web browsing, accounting for just over 7% of the entire browser market.

qas: question: Which browser is the newest to enter the field?
answers: text: Chrome

question: When was Chrome released?
answers: text: September 2008

question: As Chrome usage increases, which browser usage has continued to decrease?
answers: text: Internet Explorer

question: When did Chrome become more used than all versions of Internet Explorer?
answers: text: May 2012

question: In what year was Internet Explorer released?

question: By how much did IE double its usage share?

question: When did Internet Explorer 8 overtake Chrome as the more popular browser?

question: What was IE's increase in usage percentage in August 2011?

question: When did the usage of IE surpass all versions of Chrome combined?
context: The most recent major entrant to the browser market is Chrome, first released in September 2008. Chrome's take-up has increased significantly year by year, by doubling its usage share from 8% to 16% by August 2011. This increase seems largely to be at the expense of Internet Explorer, whose share has tended to decrease from month to month. In December 2011, Chrome overtook Internet Explorer 8 as the most widely used web browser but still had lower usage than all versions of Internet Explorer combined. Chrome's user-base continued to grow and in May 2012, Chrome's usage passed the usage of all versions of Internet Explorer combined. By April 2014, Chrome's usage had hit 45%.

qas: question: What was bundled for free with the Windows OS?
answers: text: Internet Explorer

question: Internet Explorer was partially funded in what two ways?
answers: text: sales of Windows to computer manufacturers and direct to users

question: What other OS could use Internet Explorer?
answers: text: Mac

question: What program was bundled free with Java?

question: What helped to partly fund Java?

question: For what OS was Java formerly available for?

question: Why was Java available for the Mac?

question: In what other way did Java contribute to Windows and Microsoft application sales?
context: Internet Explorer, on the other hand, was bundled free with the Windows operating system (and was also downloadable free), and therefore it was funded partly by the sales of Windows to computer manufacturers and direct to users. Internet Explorer also used to be available for the Mac. It is likely that releasing IE for the Mac was part of Microsoft's overall strategy to fight threats to its quasi-monopoly platform dominance - threats such as web standards and Java - by making some web developers, or at least their managers, assume that there was "no need" to develop for anything other than Internet Explorer. In this respect, IE may have contributed to Windows and Microsoft applications sales in another way, through "lock-in" to Microsoft's browser.

qas: question: Who investigated the bundling of the IE browser with Windows OS?
answers: text: the European Commission

question: When did the European Commission say they would investigate the bundling?
answers: text: January 2009

question: The Commission felt that bundling the browser with Windows computers harmed what?
answers: text: competition between web browsers

question: The Commission felt that the bundling undermined what?
answers: text: product innovation

question: What would Microsoft investigate in January 2009?

question: In what year was Microsoft investigating the European Commission?

question: What did the Commission undermine according to Microsoft?

question: What was reduced by the Commission according to Microsoft?

question: What action is harmed by the Commision according to Microsoft?
context: In January 2009, the European Commission announced it would investigate the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows operating systems from Microsoft, saying "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice." Microsoft Corp v Commission

qas: question: What browser was automatically included with OS X?
answers: text: Safari

question: What are mobile devices included with?

question: What were sales of Apple computers funded by?

question: What was Apple originally funded by?

question: What did Apple customers provide to Apple?

question: What do the OS X and i OS provide?
context: Safari and Mobile Safari were likewise always included with OS X and iOS respectively, so, similarly, they were originally funded by sales of Apple computers and mobile devices, and formed part of the overall Apple experience to customers.

qas: question: Which company pays Firefox to make their search engine the default on their browser?
answers: text: Google

question: What other browser has Google as the default search engine?
answers: text: Chrome

question: The increased revenue funds what, in addition to Google?
answers: text: Google Chrome

question: Why do web browsers pay search engine companies?

question: Why does Mozilla pay Google?

question: What lets Google not charge users for using Chrome?

question: What increases ad revenue for Firefox?

question: What funds development at Mozilla?
context: Today, most commercial web browsers are paid by search engine companies to make their engine default, or to include them as another option. For example, Google pays Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, to make Google Search the default search engine in Firefox. Mozilla makes enough money from this deal that it does not need to charge users for Firefox. In addition, Google Search is also (as one would expect) the default search engine in Google Chrome. Users searching for websites or items on the Internet would be led to Google's search results page, increasing ad revenue and which funds development at Google and of Google Chrome.

qas: question: What is the main use of a browser?
answers: text: to bring information resources to the user

question: What is the primary purpose of a computer having access?

question: How does display rendering function?

question: How does an OS access other information?

question: What lets an OS see information?

question: What lets an OS find other information?
context: The primary purpose of a web browser is to bring information resources to the user ("retrieval" or "fetching"), allowing them to view the information ("display", "rendering"), and then access other information ("navigation", "following links").

qas: question: What does URL stand for?
answers: text: Uniform Resource Locator

question: What is the determining factor in how a URL will be interpreted?
answers: text: The prefix of the URL

question: What does http stand for?
answers: text: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

question: What does ftp stand for?
answers: text: File Transfer Protocol

question: A news: prefix is given to the user's what?
answers: text: default newsgroup reader

question: What does the prefix of the default newsgroup reader determine?

question: What does the most common form of local file start with?

question: What does a common browser identify?

question: What happens to newsgroup readers the web browser can't handle directly?

question: Where are ftp's passed on to?
context: This process begins when the user inputs a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), for example http://en.wikipedia.org/, into the browser. The prefix of the URL, the Uniform Resource Identifier or URI, determines how the URL will be interpreted. The most commonly used kind of URI starts with http: and identifies a resource to be retrieved over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Many browsers also support a variety of other prefixes, such as https: for HTTPS, ftp: for the File Transfer Protocol, and file: for local files. Prefixes that the web browser cannot directly handle are often handed off to another application entirely. For example, mailto: URIs are usually passed to the user's default e-mail application, and news: URIs are passed to the user's default newsgroup reader.

qas: question: What is it called when content is changed from markup to an interactive document?
answers: text: rendering

question: Browsers typically have plug-ins to support what?
answers: text: Flash applications and Java applets

question: Browsers have you save to disk so they can support what?

question: What is it called when resources are changed from being unsupported to being downloaded?

question: What files can be displayed when a file is unsupported?

question: What unsupported content can resources display that is part of a webpage?

question: What process happens to plug-ins saved to disk?
context: In the case of http, https, file, and others, once the resource has been retrieved the web browser will display it. HTML and associated content (image files, formatting information such as CSS, etc.) is passed to the browser's layout engine to be transformed from markup to an interactive document, a process known as "rendering". Aside from HTML, web browsers can generally display any kind of content that can be part of a web page. Most browsers can display images, audio, video, and XML files, and often have plug-ins to support Flash applications and Java applets. Upon encountering a file of an unsupported type or a file that is set up to be downloaded rather than displayed, the browser prompts the user to save the file to disk.

qas: question: What can resources have to connect to other resources?
answers: text: hyperlinks

question: How does a user read URI?

question: Why does a computer create hyperlinks?

question: What happens when a hyperlink is created?

question: What makes a computer take longer to find information?

question: What happens when a user can't find information?
context: Information resources may contain hyperlinks to other information resources. Each link contains the URI of a resource to go to. When a link is clicked, the browser navigates to the resource indicated by the link's target URI, and the process of bringing content to the user begins again.

qas: question: Features on a browser can range from minimal with little support to what?
answers: text: rich user interfaces

question: When a browser includes a lot of extras, it can be referred to as what?
answers: text: Internet suites

question: What does IRC stand for?
answers: text: Internet Relay Chat

question: What are some features that IRC has?

question: What are IRC's sometimes referred to as?

question: What are some features of HTML?

question: What are some extra features included in IRC?

question: What does e-mail also support?
context: Available web browsers range in features from minimal, text-based user interfaces with bare-bones support for HTML to rich user interfaces supporting a wide variety of file formats and protocols. Browsers which include additional components to support e-mail, Usenet news, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC), are sometimes referred to as "Internet suites" rather than merely "web browsers".

qas: question: What does not allow windows to pop up without consent?
answers: text: pop-up blockers

question: What do all pop-up blockers allow in a window?

question: What can be open without the user's consent in a window?

question: Where do unwanted windows open in a browser?

question: Where do browsers allow pop-ups to open?

question: What do information resources allow to pop-up in a window?
context: All major web browsers allow the user to open multiple information resources at the same time, either in different browser windows or in different tabs of the same window. Major browsers also include pop-up blockers to prevent unwanted windows from "popping up" without the user's consent.

qas: question: A computer program that continues the functionality of a browser is called what?
answers: text: browser extension

question: What extends development of computer functionality?

question: Why does a computer create a browser extension?

question: What does making a computer program support?

question: What does every computer program support?

question: What happens when a computer program is created?
context: A browser extension is a computer program that extends the functionality of a web browser. Every major web browser supports the development of browser extensions.

qas: question: A list of websites a user can click to get back to easy have been what by the user?
answers: text: bookmarked

question: What are "bookmarks" called in Internet Explorer?
answers: text: Favorites

question: The top browsers have a built-in what?
answers: text: feed aggregator

question: Firefox does web feeds as what?
answers: text: live bookmarks

question: The Opera feed reader is more what?
answers: text: traditional

question: What are live bookmarks called in Opera?

question: What is built in to all bookmarks?

question: How do bookmarks behave in IE?

question: How are feed aggregators formatted as in Opera?

question: What kind of web pages are included in IE?
context: Most web browsers can display a list of web pages that the user has bookmarked so that the user can quickly return to them. Bookmarks are also called "Favorites" in Internet Explorer. In addition, all major web browsers have some form of built-in web feed aggregator. In Firefox, web feeds are formatted as "live bookmarks" and behave like a folder of bookmarks corresponding to recent entries in the feed. In Opera, a more traditional feed reader is included which stores and displays the contents of the feed.

qas: question: HTTP Secure is supported by what?
answers: text: Most browsers

question: Cache, download history, cookies, browsing and what else can be quickly deleted in browsers?
answers: text: form and search history

question: A comparison of browser must be seen to know what?
answers: text: current security vulnerabilities

question: What do most cookies support?

question: What does comparing browsing history show about your computer?

question: What does comparison of web browsers offer you to do quickly?

question: How do you know if your web cache is secure?

question: What do most web browser comparisons support?
context: Most browsers support HTTP Secure and offer quick and easy ways to delete the web cache, download history, form and search history, cookies, and browsing history. For a comparison of the current security vulnerabilities of browsers, see comparison of web browsers.

qas: question: Quick development of what kind of browsers led to non-standard HTML dialects?
answers: text: proprietary web browsers

question: Non-standard dialects led to what?
answers: text: problems with interoperability

question: Modern browser support standards-based and defacto what?
answers: text: HTML and XHTML

question: HTML and XHTML should be what by all browsers?
answers: text: rendered in the same way

question: What did early XHTML support?

question: What did the rapid development of modern web browsers lead to?

question: What problems arose after the development of modern web browsers?

question: How should non-standard dialects be treated by all browsers?

question: What are two things that a simple HTML version supports?
context: Early web browsers supported only a very simple version of HTML. The rapid development of proprietary web browsers led to the development of non-standard dialects of HTML, leading to problems with interoperability. Modern web browsers support a combination of standards-based and de facto HTML and XHTML, which should be rendered in the same way by all browsers.

qas: question: A user interface, UI backend, layout engine and other things are part of what?
answers: text: Web browsers

question: The layout engine, rendering engine, user interface and other things are components that offer different what of web browsers?
answers: text: functionalities

question: What are two things that make up a UI backend?

question: What does a JavaScript interpreter achieve in a layout engine?

question: What do a rendering engine and a user interface create when only used with each other?

question: What parts of a layout engine make up a data persistence component?

question: What does a user interface achieve when part of a UI backend?
context: Web browsers consist of a user interface, layout engine, rendering engine, JavaScript interpreter, UI backend, networking component and data persistence component. These components achieve different functionalities of a web browser and together provide all capabilities of a web browser.