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Shockwave, Flash, RealPlayer, QuickTime, iPIX: these and hundreds of other Internet plug-ins, helper applications and browser extending tools can make using the Web simple - if you know which tools to use and how to use them. With library Internet access training responsibilities, library professionals have become important facilitators in the virtual world and it has become imperative for them to familiarize themselves with tools to extend the browser's capabilities. This how-to-do-it manual is designed as an aid to saving library staff and their users from becoming mired in a cyber-swamp. The practical capabilities that facilitate smooth Web usage are carefully demystified, and clear guidance is given on the best use of office applications, image-viewing tools, sound enhancers, vide players and more. The book discusses 15 of the most essential plug-ins, covering purpose, system requirements, strengths and weaknesses, installation instructions, troubleshooting tips and special benefits and applications for libraries. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.A typical scenario of web feed use is: a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program (also called a feed reader or a news reader) running on their own machines; doing this is usually as simple as dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator. When instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically. Web feeds are an example of pull technology, although they may appear to push content to the user. ... Read more

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This book introduces the key technologies that have been developed as part of the World Wide Web, helping readers understand the Web at a fundamental level. This provides a solid foundation from which readers can move on to higher-level Web development tools. Detailed coverage of a wide spectrum of Web technologies, including AJAX, HTTP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM), Java Servlets, XML, XML Namespaces, SAX, XPath, XSLT, JSP, SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, and JAX-RPC.  For professionals interested in expanding their knowledge of emerging[DU1]  Web technologies.

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Great potential!
I would give this book 5 stars, but the material needs to be updated. I have used this book twice for teaching our third year undergraduate course on Web technologies. I like the philosophy of the book, which is 1) to present a single coherent stream of technologies, rather than presenting a large collection of technologies that are more or less equivalent, and 2)to present the fundamental concepts of the Web so that students are well equipped to understand future technologies. The book presents Java-based server-side technologies, which suites our curriculum very well since we are using Java for most of our programming courses, and it also has a good coverage of XML technologies. The author provides numerous references to the relevant RFCs and authoritative documents. The book could be improved by adding more elements of design so that the students better understand the role of these technologies in developing large real-world Web applications. But most importantly, the book needs to be updated to cover the current Web standards. In particular, the Java-based Web services have evolved substantially since the publication of the book. HTML5 is evolving in interesting directions, and should be covered in the textbook. A chapter of JavaServer Faces would be a nice addition. Finally, although most of the textbook presents clear explanations of the concepts, some sections would benefit from the polishing that a second edition would bring. For me, the book is reaching its end of life, but unfortunately, I am not aware of any other textbook with "a computer science perspective" of Web technologies.

Whirlwind Tour with Case Study (blog), Code Examples and Relevant References
I used this book in my web applications class. This is a great introductory book for those who are tired of design-centric, saccharine, "let's make pretty pages" category of HTML books. If you are an aspiring developer, you need to know more than a mark-up language. This book gives you a working definition of XHTML, and then moves on to the real meat of the web: the technologies that drive real-world web pages; that is, JavaScript, XML, JSP, etc. Of course there are analogs to those listed above. PHP, for one. The author does not argue for "one true technology set." He presents the material so that, if you were to learn PHP instead of JavaScript, it would be a smooth integration to what you already learned.

There is also an appendix explaining how to set up a server, etc. All in all, one of the best dev-centric books on web programming - not just a book of tags! - that I've seen. :) ... Read more

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Enables users to maximize Netscape's extended graphics support to create visually impressive online Web documents, and the accompanying CD-ROM includes an HTML editor, Netscape Navigator 1.1, and an array of utilities. Original. (Intermediate). ... Read more

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Understand how Navigator interprets your HTML code.
I'm a Web content editor.I prepare Web pages for a corporate intranet.Netscape Navigator is the only browser in use.This book is the only reference that I use because it helps me understand how my HTML code will appear on a user's computer screen.The book is clearly written, well - indexed, and the CDROM has useful information, also ... Read more

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Shows readers how to install and configure Netscape Publishing. Addresses how to use the Suite to create and maintain Web sites. Includes detailed coverage of Web site design issues, providing step-by-step guidance on content creation and management.Amazon.com Review
Cravens and James have written this book for the relativebeginner who needs to produce a Web site on the fly. It guides thereader though the strategy and execution of Web-site creation usingNetscape tools, with a major emphasis on NetObjects Fusion PE. Thissoftware is designed to be a Web-site creation and maintenance toolrather than a tool for individual pages. It's an approach the authorsheartily approve of, and they encourage readers to think in broadterms, considering their entire site as a unit rather than as just acollection of various pages.

Since the book has beginners in mind,it opens with a section on getting started with the Netscape programs,including installation and understanding the Net. The five chapters ofpart 2 introduce the components of Netscape Communicator 4. Part 3 isdevoted to getting the reader up to speed on NetObjects Fusion PE,with discussions on planning a site, creating content, and simplifyingsite management by automating processes with Fusion tools. Part 4provides a concise course in adding interactivity to a site. Thecompanion CD-ROM offers a variety of sample Web sites, utilities, andtools. --Elizabeth Lewis ... Read more

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Using the Shelly Cashman Series step-by-step, screen-by-screen proven approach to learning, students of all levels will stay on track while learning the latest Dreamweaver MX 2004 skills. Starting from scratch, each user will build a fully functional Web site in the Dreamweaver MX 2004 environment that they can easily incorporate into their Web portfolio. Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the latest in building Web sites and Internet applications, and using texts from the Shelly Cashman Series is your solution to teaching it! ... Read more

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Written in straightforward style, it illustrates key techniques with interesting, colorful examples. ... Read more

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My Navigator to the WORLD!!!!!!!!
This is the BEST Netscape Navigator GOLD by FAR!!!! I am looking forward to the upgrades. When I bought my first computer it did not have Netscape Navigator pre-installed. But it was the first and only program I bought for the first two almost three years. I did not need anything else. I was able to do all my work within Netscape. We lived in a tiny town when I bought my first computer, and everyone else who bought a computer,I encouraged them to install Netscape and I helped them to get comfortable with working it and they all still love it. This is SIMPLY THE BEST PROGAM BY FAR!!!!! Please KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!! Your Friend Always, ... Read more

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Illustrating and explaining over 50 of the world's most innovatively designed websites, this book focuses on the debate that is currently raging over usability and considers the implications for the web designer. The sites are organized into sections that reflect users' motivations for visiting them. Each site is accompanied by a short review, and quotations from web designers around the world run throughout the book, providing an additional commentary on the sites and explaining why they are significant. There are also essays by Jakob Nielsen, Richard Buchanan and Geert Lovink. The book is accompanied by its own website, which extends the content and debate initiated in the book and provides a forum for discussion and innovation for the web design community. ... Read more

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The first reference-only HTML book on the market with cross client developers in mind, Webmaster's HTML and WWW File Format Reference provides a complete guide to HTML tags for HTML+, HTML 2.0, and HTML 3.0. The book also provides quick conversion notes for MIME and other Internet based utilities to provide for conversion. ... Read more

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You can what you like of the enclosed review, Ruth Mountaing
[NDN Logo] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hybrid HTML Design by Jean Warner and Kevin Ready New Riders Publishing, 1996, 412 pages, paperback, $35.00 by Ruth Mountaingrove You've just put your web page on Netscape and it looks beautiful. But have you checked it out on America on Line or Compuserve? Yeech! What has happened to your beautiful design? Where have the buttons gone? Why is everything on the left side or in a straight line with no breaks? Why has the picture you put in changed to that size? Where are the frames? The answers to these questions and the solutions, as much as is possible, are in the book Hybrid HTML Design. Here you will learn what tags to use to accommodate not only Netscape which is probably the most complex and developed browser but you will also be able to make it possible for aol'ers and other more primitive browsers to enjoy your work. HTML is the abbreviation for HyperTextMarkup Language. A feature I like very much is the step by step explanations with photographs of browsers showing you what each browser will do to your web page. The HTML document behind each page is printed out. Tags are explained. Browsers that don't recognize HTML tags are illustrated with photographs showing what that looks like. Not pretty. The browsers dealt with are Netscape Navigator 2 and 3, Internet Explorer 2, Oracle Power Browser 1, Hot Java Alpha 1, NCSA Mosaic 2, Compuserve Spry Mosaic, America On-line 2.4, Prodigy, Cyberdog, PointCast, the Lynx browser and others. While you may be tempted, as I was, to buy PageMill 1, I realized as soon as I got it that I still needed to learn some HTML because PageMill is limited, They admit this in their user guide which accompanies the disk. The book also deals with server issues assuming of course you want to be your own server. This implies that you are doing a lot of web work and need your own space on the net. Accompanying the book is a Hybrid HTML Design CD-ROM with Gif Builder, Debabelizer lite, Plug-ins including Shockwave for Freehand, and Director, Crescendo, Future Splash, Photo Bubbles. There is also Microsoft Internet Explorer. Also included are demos of the Oracle Power Browser, Micromedia Director 5, and Shockwave. Shareware of BBedit, BBedit lite, World Wide Web Weaver, Adobe PageMill 1 and HTML Assistant Pro 2. Demos, meaning you can play but not save. In addition there are Adobe PhotoShop 3.05, Illustrator 6, Fetch 1.2, Premier 4.0.1, PageMaker 6 and much more, like conversion programs, and lots more information on Hybrid HTML Design. The book and CD-Rom are an excellent combination. The demos make it possible to have hands-on experience before buying expensive software. Janine Warner and Kevin Reading have created a well thought out tool for the webster. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruth Mountaingrove is an avid computer user, teacher of Senior Citzens, writer for Senior News and creator of her own web site: Web Page of a 74 Year Old Woman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Digital News Update * Redwood Country Update * Battling Scientology: Interview with Grady Ward * Back Issues ... Read more

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Netscape's browser for the World Wide Web was chosen as the best browser by the editors of PC Magazine. This book provides new users with everything they need to get the most out of their online sessions with Netscape Navigator. ... Read more

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Now that so much information is communicated via the Internet, it has become essential for any library or information service to promote itself on the Web by creating its own website. This book aims to tell you everything you need to know about how to promote your website so that it gets noticed. It guides you through the stages needed in planning a successful promotion strategy for your website, from the initial stages - thinking about promotion before the website is even created - right through to monitoring the success of your website long after it has been set up. It explains web promotion specifically as it relates to websites in the library and information world and is written in an easy-to-read question and answer style. ... Read more

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Netscape Navigator -- it's not just a browser anymore. The "Gold" version of Navigator adds a full complement of HTML editing and Web publishing capabilities to this popular application's already robust feature set. Creating Cool Netscape Gold Web Pages takes the program even further, to a new level of power and convenience. In this book and CD-ROM package, author Ron Wodaski covers the basics of HTML and then explains the ins and outs of JavaScript -- the scripting language sure to rock your World Wide Web. You'll find out how to invoke Navigator's "Wizard" feature to make Web page creation fast and simple. Then, on the bundled CD-ROM for Windows, you'll find totally excellent resources, including Web page templates, clip art, HTML forms, Hypersnap (for capturing and saving your own GIF images), MapTHIS! (for creating clickable image maps), and other handy tools to increase both your creativity and productivity. ... Read more

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YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!: THE FINAL FRONTIER OF HACKS
If you're not very knowledgeable on how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo!, this book is for you! Author Paul Bausch, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that will help you do just that, in ways you never dreamed possible.

Bausch, begins by showing you how to become a Yahoo! power searcher by taking advantage of meta keywords in order to return more relevant results. Then, he shows you some unique ways on how to use Yahoo! Web Services, including monitoring your commute for problems, watching TV schedules automatically for appearances by your favorite celebrities, and visualizing your music collection. The author continues by showing you how to use the hacks to reach out and touch someone. Next, he introduces you to the backdoor that Yahoo! has opened for developers. Then, the author shows you how people are using Yahoo! data in their own applications and have a bit of fun in the process. Finally, he shows you how to get listed and introduces you to other Yahoo! components you can plug into your site.

You can read this excellent book from cover to cover if you like, but each hack stands on its own. Here, the author intends to show you what's possible when you view Yahoo! as a platform and inspire your inner hacker to take a new look at Yahoo!.

Everything to know about tweaking Yahoo! is here
Paul Bausch's YAHOO! HACKS: TIPS & TOOLS FOR LIVING ON THE WEB FRONTIERtells how to personalize and use Yahoo! In new ways, from using keyword shortcuts and advanced syntax to get more from search queries to customizing Yahoo! Mail, using its blogging features and file share programs, and even building applications using Yahoo! web services. Everything there is to know about customizing and tweaking Yahoo! is in this book.

How to get the most out of Yahoo.
This book contains a hundred hacks to get Yahoo to work the way you want it to work.These hacks include tips for getting the results you want from a Yahoo search, dealing with advertiser cookies, tracking your stocks, getting news feeds and news crawlers, using Yahoo groups, programming Yahoo using various languages including Perl, Java, PHP, and VBScript and even how to plot multiple points on map at the same time.Of course the biggest question for many people is how to get your site listed at Yahoo and there is even a tip for that.Yahoo! Hacks is a highly recommended book to anyone who uses Yahoo or wants to know how to really master it.

Get The Most Out Of Your Yahoo! Experience!
When Yahoo! was created in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo it was the simplest of web sites.Just a collection of web pages laid out in a simple unordered list, the entire Yahoo! web site was only a handful of pages with only a single, simple use: to list sites on the web separated out by the content they provided.Probably when someone today thinks of Yahoo! the first thing they think of is that it is a search engine.Well the 1st generation of the Yahoo! web site didn't even have that.There wasn't even a form field present, the only thing being a bunch of hyperlinks which navigated to more hyperlinks for the few sites that were in existence back in the day.

My what changes a decade brings.

When you think of the Internet today, probably the first couple of web sites that come to mind are eBay, Google, amazon and Yahoo!.It is safe to say that with thousands of employees and millions upon millions of revenue that Yahoo! is one of the greatest success stories on the web, and to think that only 10+ years ago this site was just a simple list that grew into so much more.Yahoo! has evolved to not only provide a way of searching the Internet, but it is now a portal site that provides News, Weather, Sports, Games... basically if you can think of something that you can find on the Internet then Yahoo! is a great place to go to start your web experience.There is so much to do and so many places to go when you use Yahoo! that it can become mind-boggling and that is where "Yahoo! Hacks" can be used to make your net experience the best it can be.

Providing 100 tips and tricks of how to best use Yahoo! to your advantage, Paul Bausch pulls no punches and doesn't skimp on the details.From learning how to use and customize 'My Yahoo!' to setting up and controlling your mail to setting your own personal TV listings, you can learn how to do this with this guide.From tracking your investments to created advanced searches that remember personalized settings to installing Yahoo! Messenger, you will learn the ins and outs with this book.This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to discussing all that Yahoo! Hacks has to offer.RSS, blogging, Calendar, sharing photos... the list goes on and on.

After reading Yahoo! Hacks you will soon feel like there is so much to offer from Yahoo! that you could do everything you needed to at one web site and never have to go anywhere else!Now with this guide you can get the most out of your Yahoo! experience and have fun while doing it.

This is what Hack books are supposed to be about!!For all Yahoo! enthusiasts out there who want to learn how to use Yahoo! to the fullest, this is the book for you!!

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

I'm not dead yet!
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."That quote might apply to Yahoo when you look at all the mindshare that Google has garnered of late.It's almost as if Yahoo is irrelevant and Google owns the search world.Not quite, and Paul Bausch's new book Yahoo! Hacks - Tips & Tools for Living on the Web Frontier reminded me of all the good and incredibly valuable things you can do with Yahoo...

Contents:Search; Services; Communicating; Web Services; Applications; Webmastering; Index

Like all Hacks titles, you have a number of cool tips and tricks that you can do using Yahoo as your technology starting point.In this case, there's 100 of them that cover a wide range of topics.For instance, tip #39 - Monitor Your Commute shows how Yahoo can provide updated traffic conditions overlaying a map of your driving commute.Even better, those traffic updates can be formatted in RSS and put on your My Yahoo page.I did that one right away.Tip #83 - Randomize Your Windows Desktop Background shows how, using Yahoo's web services API and some VBA code, you can create a random Windows wallpaper each day.Just hope you don't choose a search term that isn't "work safe".:)The whole Web Services chapter shows how you can access Yahoo's API using a variety of languages such as Perl, PHP, Python and a few others.Once you get the basic core structure down, you open up a whole universe of possibilities in terms of programmatic integration of Yahoo into your applications.This is really cool stuff...

I've been just as guilty as the next person of getting all "Google"-y eye'd at other search engines and forgetting the site that opened up a whole world of internet realities.Many of the things we take for granted now were ground-breaking ideas that Yahoo was pushing in the early days.Having two strong competitors in the search arena will lead to even more innovative thinking as they play off of each other.I can see how the Yahoo! Hacks title could go into multiple editions without even trying...

Excellent read with lots of code you can use immediately.If you've wandered away from Yahoo for other pastures, perhaps it's time to wander back and see what other options are out there.Yahoo Hacks will expand your thinking as to what you can do with search engines... ... Read more

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Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of 1 November 2009, Chrome was the fourth most widely used browser, with 3.6% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. Development versions of Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X were released in June 2009. ... Read more

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Complete Rip-off!It's just Wikipedia printed on paper.
From what I've seen on amazon, these editors seem to specialize in just printing out Wikipedia sections and charging high prices for them, while concealing the fact that the "book" is just Wikipedia articles.Click on any of the "editors" names to search for all the "books" they've edited that are available here, and you'll see what I mean.

Warning
Alphascript Publishing has a big published about 40 000 "books" that are nothing more than a collection of Wikipedia articles. The books retail for between $40 and $100. This is a big price for something that is available for free. Shame on Amazon for stocking them. Often the cover picture does not even match the subject.

Four stars???Dude, you gave four stars for a WIKIPEDIA RIP OFF BOOK???

Good read for Web 2.0 solutions
This book is good read to ensure quality Web 2.0 AJAX solutions. This book provides in depth coverage of browser components, threading, garbage collection, memory model etc. And thus facilitates the process of replacing legacy presentation-tier on server with client-tier(JavaScript) in browser. This boook covers css parsing, html parsing, rendering, layout, javascript interaction etc.

This book can be used while creating Rich Internet Applications which pull coarse grained data with services in cloud[-computing]. Although, there are various sections with low level details which I skipped and may be good read for somebody trying to embed/develop browsers.

This book has concise and crisp coverage of inner workings of Firefox components of gecko, spidermonkey, tracemonkey etc. For example how DOM Objects as scriptable XPCOM objects interacts with Javascript using XPConnect. This book details Chrome and Safari's Webkit components of WebCore, JavaScriptCore, V8. This book provides insight into how IE 9 Javascript compiler (Chakra) compiles JavaScript source code into high-quality native machine code etc.

Totally agree with the review by "Pen Name and A That"
You have to give this a one star. Concur completely with the one star review below. Spot on. ... Read more

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Browser wars is a metaphorical term that refers to competitions for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is often used to denote two specific rivalries: the competition that saw Microsoft's Internet Explorer replace Netscape's Navigator as the dominant browser during the late 1990s and the erosion of Internet Explorer's market share since 2003 by a collection of emerging browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera. ... Read more

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A badly cobbled together list of wikedia articles.
Browser wars: Metaphor, Web browser, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (web browser), Opera (web browser), Usage share of web browsers

Compare the title/list of ripped off wikipedia articles above, with the "product" description below.

Browser wars is a metaphorical term that refers to competitions for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is often used to denote two specific rivalries: the competition that saw Microsoft's Internet Explorer replace Netscape's Navigator as the dominant browser during the late 1990s and the erosion of Internet Explorer's market share since 2003 by a collection of emerging browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera.

Now, you see how metaphor got in the title.They didn't take much care with the book, did they?Expensive, too. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charon is a web browser for the Inferno operating system. It is a basic graphical browser with support for javascript, HTTPS, and basic support for FTP. Charon was originally written by Howard Trickey in Limbo for Inferno. It runs under the wm window manager, but can also run directly on the draw device. It supports a subset of the HTML and ECMAScript standards. Charon was later ported to C by the author to become the unfinished Plan 9 i web browser. As part of the acme standalone project, Charon was implemented as a client to run inside acme. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Software Industry Report, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on July 12, 2004. The length of the article is 350 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NetSuite announces Apple Safari Web browser support.
Publication: Software Industry Report (Newsletter)
Date: July 12, 2004
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 36Issue: 13Page: 4

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Epiphany is a web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. The browser is a descendant of Galeon, and was created after disagreements about Galeon's target audience.Epiphany was developed from Galeon by Marco Pesenti Gritti, who was also the initiator of Galeon, with the aim of making a web browser that would be fully compliant with the GNOME human interface guidelines and that would have a very simple user experience. As a result, Epiphany does not have its own theme settings - it uses GNOME's settings, which are specified in the GNOME Control Center. ... Read more

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K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows API to create the user interface, and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop; this approach is similar to that of Galeon and Epiphany, and Camino. This also makes K-Meleon less resource-intensive and more responsive to user input. ... Read more