Alternative Web Browsers - What are the Choices?
Introduction When designing a Web site it is important to consider how the users will see the Web page. There are many Browsers available that a user could be using to view your Web site. Consideration of the standards between each browser is important. There are so many browsers available on the market that the Web page that has been created could, and, most probably will look different on every browser. Some browsers handle certain scripting languages better than others e.g. Mozilla Firefox has no problems handling animated gifts as rollovers on buttons, whereas Internet Explorer 5 cannot handle them and will not display them correctly or may not display them at all. In section 2 of this report will discuss the standards between browsers, browsers available and how the browsers handle the HTML language in different ways. This section will also show the usage between the most popular browsers and will display the statistics as a pie chart with each chunk representing a different browser. In section 3 of this report, will discuss the security risks from both the client side and server side and will list the top ten vulnerabilities that a Web site must overcome to stay protected. This section will also display the statistics of security risks in a bar chart. Section 4 discusses how the information that is in this report will be used in the main project. Section 5 is the conclusion of all the information that has been gathered to make this report and how it can be used to create a better compatible and secure Web site.
With the rapid growth of the Internet there is a parallel growth in the number of modern browsers with various features. Browsers can be defined as software to view websites though modern browsers provide a lot more functionality than merely browsing websites.
With the number of browsers available in the market, each having its own merits and demerits, there is a need for web site optimization so that your website will be displayed and functional equally well in all browsers.
Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari are among the most popular browsers. They cover about 98% of market share. Even within them, Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer cover nearly 92% of the browser market. So, it is very important that your website must be fully compatible and displays properly at least in these web browsers. Though all the browsers follow web standards set by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), certain HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) tags, properties and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) properties may not be supported properly by all the web browsers. This is the case where your web designer should think on browser compatibility before writing the code for the website.
If you build a Web page and the user's browser does not understand part of the language, then they will ignore that part and continue creating the rest of the page. This will cause some browsers not to display the page the way it was designed to be seen. The best way to minimize these problems is to pay attention to browser compatibility when building your Web page. Avoid using HTML extensions and be careful about using cutting-edge features of the language that may not yet be supported by all the major browsers. The major difference between two versions of the same browser is their support for newer portions of the HTML language. A new browser is generally better at displaying Web pages than an old one.
Very basic option available for a web developer is to go with the properties supported by all the major browsers. In your design code, it is wise to choose the design properties common to all major browsers. This may ask for compromise on look of the site and it may not work out well at times. So, in case it is impossible for the site to be made fully compatible with all browsers due to coding limitations, then the developer needs to know the various types and versions of web browsers used by the bulk of the website visitors. There are many techniques to get this information. You can use Javascript or PHP commands in your code to know about browser name and version. Depending on the browser, your designer can write different code snippets supported by various browsers.
Taking advantage of unexpected or unplanned errors within the Web application to gain unauthorised access is known a security bug. There are three elements required in order for a security bug to take place; an Asset, a Vulnerability and a hacker, if all three things exist in the Web application then there will be risk of a security bug.
With the rapid growth of the Internet there is a parallel growth in the number of modern browsers with various features. Browsers can be defined as software to view websites though modern browsers provide a lot more functionality than merely browsing websites.
With the number of browsers available in the market, each having its own merits and demerits, there is a need for web site optimization so that your website will be displayed and functional equally well in all browsers.
Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari are among the most popular browsers. They cover about 98% of market share. Even within them, Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer cover nearly 92% of the browser market. So, it is very important that your website must be fully compatible and displays properly at least in these web browsers. Though all the browsers follow web standards set by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), certain HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) tags, properties and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) properties may not be supported properly by all the web browsers. This is the case where your web designer should think on browser compatibility before writing the code for the website.
If you build a Web page and the user's browser does not understand part of the language, then they will ignore that part and continue creating the rest of the page. This will cause some browsers not to display the page the way it was designed to be seen. The best way to minimize these problems is to pay attention to browser compatibility when building your Web page. Avoid using HTML extensions and be careful about using cutting-edge features of the language that may not yet be supported by all the major browsers. The major difference between two versions of the same browser is their support for newer portions of the HTML language. A new browser is generally better at displaying Web pages than an old one.
Very basic option available for a web developer is to go with the properties supported by all the major browsers. In your design code, it is wise to choose the design properties common to all major browsers. This may ask for compromise on look of the site and it may not work out well at times. So, in case it is impossible for the site to be made fully compatible with all browsers due to coding limitations, then the developer needs to know the various types and versions of web browsers used by the bulk of the website visitors. There are many techniques to get this information. You can use Javascript or PHP commands in your code to know about browser name and version. Depending on the browser, your designer can write different code snippets supported by various browsers.
Taking advantage of unexpected or unplanned errors within the Web application to gain unauthorised access is known a security bug. There are three elements required in order for a security bug to take place; an Asset, a Vulnerability and a hacker, if all three things exist in the Web application then there will be risk of a security bug.
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