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Web Page
A web page is a document of information that can be accessed and viewed through a web browser.
A web page is generally contained in a website and constitutes as a source of information that floats on
the world wide web. The information is usually coded in HTML. Web pages may be retrieved from a local
host computer or a remote computer with the help of the Internet. Web pages are requested and served
from a web server using protocols like Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Web pages may consist of static pages (which are stored within a file system of a web server) and/or
dynamic pages (which contain files of a run-time nature i.e., which facilitate online data transformation).
Web pages may contain information in the form of text, images, pictures, sound, audio, video, etc.
HTML is used to publish web pages. A web page is designed by web developers with the help of markup
languages like HTML. It is not technically a programming language but it was developed to create
electronic pages that could be displayed on the Internet.
Web Browser
A web browser is an application software that helps a user to navigate through different websites on the
Internet and display web pages. The user requests a page from a web server with the help of web browser.
After receiving the request through the web browser, the web server makes it available for a web browser
to display the page.
Web browsers can also display animated images, play sound and video, provide secure connections and
much more. Some common web browsers are ‘Mozilla Firefox’, ‘Opera’, ‘Apple Safari’, ‘Google Chrome’,
‘Microsoft Edge’, ‘Lynx’ (Text only mode web browser), etc.
Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Opera Safari Mircosoft Edge
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