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The web browser of today and of tomorrow

The web browser of today and of tomorrow

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The web browser of today and of tomorrow

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- So far, I've talked about websites and web code and how it all fits together. Now it's time to shift gears and look at the tools we use to make all this work. In this chapter we'll look at the three tools that web designers and developers use everyday to build experiences on the web and beyond. The web browser, the code editor and browser developer tools. Let's start with the browser. Earlier in the course, I described the web browser as an application for reading and viewing web documents, more specifically the purpose of the web browser is to make it easy for humans to access and navigate between web documents. It downloads HTML and other markup and code files and outputs styled and formatted content for us humans to access. The inherent challenge of the browser is that it is an interpreter and only recently have we gotten to a point that most browsers interpret the same code in more or less the same way. Every browser has its idiosyncrasies and opinions about how the web should…

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