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As prorubalos′ Internet window: Milestones of evolution of browsers

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on November 27 the company Yandex closed the press conference provided an updated "Yandex. Browser" with a different approach to the interface.

On this occasion, the editorial Droider decided to fly back in time and look at the main stages of development

Internet browsers.


The first browser came out from under the hand of the person who created the site and the first in the world, Tim Berners-Lee. At that time, Bernes-Lee has worked with the company Next, Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple. A browser called WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus), and was not even a shadow of what we used to call "browser".

The Internet has spread more widely it is rethinking the browser. NCSAMosaic also can be assigned to a Championship, as he became the newcomer in the possession of the graphical interface. Unfortunately, for some reason, developers stopped support for the child, but opened the source code of the program, so that others can create an application based on Mosaic. The first was the browser NetscapeNavigator, which-in addition to the bug fixes "parent"-was a krossplatformernym product, available for Windows, Unix and MacOS.


Released in 1996, the Opera browser, instantly won the hearts of Russian users. This success helped make webpages load faster and smaller, in comparison to InternetExplorer from Microsoft, interface. For a long time Opera was conditionally free (advertised can be disabled for money), but in 2005, the company decided to make the program completely free.

In the year 2000 Netsape Navigator6, which was based on the Geckoengine, created by Mozilla (the name of the redused MosaicKiller). But the company's own product- MozillaSuite has become superior to Netscape 's popularity. And the company AOL, which is developing the latest browser, abandoned him. All source codes were transferred to the new draft of the Mozilla Foundation.

Late enough in the race joined Google with its Chrome. However, plans for the company were the Napoleonic — the show, what should be the ideal browser. Chrome was cross-platform, based on the popular WebKit engine and open source. The main chips were browser mode "Incognito", the address bar, this integrated with the omnibox and isolated processes. Currently, the browser continues to actively develop and even has a embodiment of the operating system.


The browser, which released a domestic company "Yandex", was a significant way since release in 2012 year. In a recent presentation that was shown boldly can claim to be a completely new product. The emphasis made on transparent interface that becomes one with the Web site, making it look like an application.

The updated browser design rated not only by us but also in the Western media, calling the interface, "which collected the best of Chrome and Opera". Among other things, the authors have tried to make it easier to work on the Internet, at the expense of analysis of search queries. For example, the browser may provide brief summaries of characters, objects or phenomena, based on data from Wikipedia.

Yandex. Browser caught the trend and began to anticipate the user's desires: If people went to the site of the cafe, then immediately display its location on a map.


Now available alpha version of a browser that owners of computers on Windows and OSX can download here.


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