But it does much more than that. My browsers can view SVG files, navigate XML. And of course there's no requirement that I'm even connected to the web to use a browser. Keep trying.
The browser on your phone does far more than display web pages. It compiles and executes Javascript, for example.All of those things are not necessary for something to be called a browser. The browser on my phone doesn't do nearly as much as a modern browser on a PC but it still can browse full normal webpages. Because it can open and view normal webpages it still counts as a browser.
Why is a page necessarily made for the web? Just because I use a particular markup language or a particular scripting language, that doesn't make something a "web page". That's like saying anything written in C is an operating system - a total non sequitur.They're web pages though. They're pages made for a web.
It has nothing to do with Americans, I know in any country people couldn't answer it either. Ask this in Africa and they won't even know what electricity is.
The browser on your phone does far more than display web pages. It compiles and executes Javascript, for example.
"Browser" is not an easy term to define in this day and age.
Why is a page necessarily made for the web? Just because I use a particular markup language or a particular scripting language, that doesn't make something a "web page". That's like saying anything written in C is an operating system - a total non sequitur.
The browser on your phone does far more than display web pages. It compiles and executes Javascript, for example.
Not all of them do. The browser on my last phone didn't even show images. It sucked.
But it does much more than that. My browsers can view SVG files, navigate XML. And of course there's no requirement that I'm even connected to the web to use a browser. Keep trying.
Just because your browser CAN do those things doesn't mean it HAS to be able to do those things to be a web browser.
Anything program that is capable of rendering HTML and communicating with the http standard is a web browser, end of story.
The fact that modern browsers have the capabilities of ftp, javascript, flash, applets, ect. Doesn't make a program that does less, any less of a web browser.
Look at Lynx, It is a web browser that can't even render pngs or jpegs (ok, it has a gui... but its most commonly used without the gui) yet it is STILL a web browser.
we won the right to take credit for the English language in the revolutionary war.what? americans are taking credit for the english language now?
A browser is defined as an HTML renderer? What happens when (not if, when) the web moves away from HTML? We will no longer have browsers? What are we going to call the things that display internet content?Any program that is capable of rendering remote HTML and communicating with the http standard is a web browser, end of story.
A browser is defined as an HTML renderer? What happens when (not if, when) the web moves away from HTML? We will no longer have browsers? What are we going to call the things that display internet content?
The fact that all browsers display HTML as a baseline is an accident of history.
How many technologies in the past 20 years have been the "evolving and flexible standard" only to die? I agree with you about XML (you don't need to educate me on XML, trust me) but the internet is evolving faster than HTML can keep up. It will take a long time, but eventually HTML will be superseded.To make such an ignorant statement just proves you don't know what you are talking about.
HTML is an evolving and flexible standard. Any program that uses XML shows what HTML is capable of becoming, and believe me, TONS of programs use XML.
The web won't move away from HTML, HTML will evolve to be what the future web will be.
How many technologies in the past 20 years have been the "evolving and flexible standard" only to die? I agree with you about XML (you don't need to educate me on XML, trust me) but the internet is evolving faster than HTML can keep up. It will take a long time, but eventually HTML will be superseded.
I just think your definition is too narrow in scope and short-sighted I haven't nailed down a real definition for a browser, but I'd say it's something like a multi-purpose runtime and content presentation engine with web capabilities. Something like that.And if, in the next 20 years, HTML outsourced, that doesn't change the fact that today, right now, the definition for a web browser is as I've stated above. It isn't a hard thing to change a definition.
I just think your definition is too narrow in scope and short-sighted I haven't nailed down a real definition for a browser, but I'd say it's something like a multi-purpose runtime and content presentation engine with web capabilities. Something like that.
Anyway I just thought the video was really dumb (like those videos were Australian people interview hundreds of Americans on the street and pick out the half a dozen who are a few deviations below average to show on tape).
To be fair though, although it doesn't seem like it to us, it is in fact a technical question. An auto mechanic could interview a few hundred people and ask what a 'tie-rod end' is and I'll bet fewer than 10% know that too. Yet most people "use" them daily.They said only 8% got the definition correctly.
I just think your definition is too narrow in scope and short-sighted I haven't nailed down a real definition for a browser, but I'd say it's something like a multi-purpose runtime and content presentation engine with web capabilities. Something like that.
Anyway I just thought the video was really dumb (like those videos were Australian people interview hundreds of Americans on the street and pick out the half a dozen who are a few deviations below average to show on tape).
I'll define it in the style of a dictionary:I'll bet the vast majority of people on this website couldn't correctly define "browser". Go on, prove yourselves.
:thumbsup:Its the lizard who keeps kidnapping princesses.
But it does much more than that. My browsers can view SVG files, navigate XML. And of course there's no requirement that I'm even connected to the web to use a browser. Keep trying.
it's almost as if they asked thousands of people and then picked out the handful of dumb answers that fit their commercial.
It has nothing to do with Americans, I know in any country people couldn't answer it either. Ask this in Africa and they won't even know what electricity is.