Browser

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Browser \Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n.
     1. An animal that browses.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Computers) a computer program that permits the user to
        view multiple electronic documents in a flexible sequence


        by the process of activating hypertext "buttons" within
        one document, which serves as a reference to the location
        of related document. The term is currently (late 1990's)
        used mostly for programs which allow traversing hypertext
        paths in documents on the internet. A typical browser will
        permit the user to easily reverse direction, and view
        again documents previously accessed.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  browser
       n 1: a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything
            in particular
       2: a program used to view HTML documents [syn: {web browser}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  browser n. A program specifically designed to help users view and
     navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this
     general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the
     proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it
     much more popular and provided a central or default techspeak meaning of
     the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone
     mentions using a `browser' without qualification, one may assume it is a
     Web browser.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  browser
       
           A program which allows a person to read
          {hypertext}.  The browser gives some means of viewing the
          contents of {nodes} (or "pages") and of {navigating} from one
          node to another.
       
          {Netscape Navigator}, {NCSA} {Mosaic}, {Lynx}, and {W3} are
          examples for browsers for the {World-Wide Web}.  They act as
          {clients} to remote {web servers}.
       
          (1996-05-31)