- From: Jim Allan <allan_jm@tsb1.tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:51:58 -0500
- To: WAU-ua <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
My old task about definitions... from Webopedia http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/b/browser.html browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Both of these are graphical browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text. In addition, most modern browsers can present multimedia information, including sound and video, though they require plug-ins for some formats. Proposal: In the Introduction it says <clip> These guidelines include information relevant to a wide class of user agents: graphical desktop browsers, screen readers, speech synthesizers, multimedia players, text browsers, voice browsers, plug-ins, etc., with a particular focus on two classes of user agents: 1. Graphical desktop browsers 2. Dependent user agents,... </clip> add ", applications used for retrieving and displaying web pages including text, graphics, sounds, and other objects. They may require additional user agents (plug-ins) to display some media/multi-media types such as page images (pdf, etc.), audio, video, and others." Jim Allan, Statewide Technical Support Specialist Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9453 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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