Introduction to Browsers

There are many Web browsers presently available. Although they differ in details, most are rather similar to each other, so if you learn to use one it is very easy to figure out how to use another. Another nice feature of most Web browsers is that they are very similar in use whether they are running on a PC, a Macintosh, or a Unix workstation---again, if you learn to use a browser on one of these "platforms" (as computer people call different types of computers), it is easy to transfer that knowledge to a different one.

We will be using the Web browser Internet Explorer, version 5.0, in most of our examples. Other browsers such as Netscape Navigator will have a somewhat different layout than the examples that we show, but they have similar functions and capabilities.