Organization of Information for Website Development 2

As mentioned before, a web browser has the capability of handing web pages with ‘Rich-text’ and other features such as paragraphs, fonts and images. In addition to this there are web sites in which live radio and live TV can be played. Web browsers have the ability to access such web sites and provide such facilities. Further, web browsers can be used for Live Chat, Internet Phone, Internet Meeting, News Groups
and Teleconferencing. The web browsers with appropriate ‘Plug-in’s can be used to execute applications developed using different application software. Web browsers with Plug-in s have advanced capabilities. For example, if you want to watch a video of a format such as 'Quick Time Movie' (a special multimedia
video format), you can add the 'plug-in' ‘Quick Time Movie Player’ to your browser and watch it. Most of these Plug-ins can be downloaded freely from the Internet. ‘Firefox’, ‘Internet Explorer’ and ‘Safari’ are widely used web browsers and they can be downloaded freely from the Internet. The following are the important features of web browsers.


Handling Media Using Plug-ins
‘Media Handler’ allows the browser to perform the operations using ‘Plug-ins avoiding any problems associated with the use of a ‘Plug-in.

Use of ‘Java Scripts’

Web browsers have the ability to browse web sites with programming language code such as ‘Java Script’. ‘Java Script’ is a programming language and codes written in this language can be included in your HTML
pages.

Value Added ‘HTML'

Using more advanced features of HTML, high quality web sites (close to pages of a magazine) can be created.


Electronic Mail (e-Mail)
Important applications like 'e-Mail' can be used.