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How web browsers work - navigation (part 1, with illustrations) ⚙️💥

Arika O on April 22, 2022

Browsers (also called web browsers or an Internet browsers) are software applications installed on our devices that allow us to access the Word Wi...
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Timothy Huang

Very useful and clearly introducing. Thanks for sharing.

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Arika O

I am glad it helped :).

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Amir M. Mohamadi

Thanks for writing this series, knowing the basics is necessary for sure.

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Talha Shinwari

I wish our teachers explained us this way.

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Arika O

I'm glad you found it useful.

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Martian Bold

Thank you for sharing!

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Arika O

Glad I could write it 😄

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Martian Bold

Please, go forward! A hug from Brazil!

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Ryan Els

Excellent post.
Very informative.

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Arika O

Thank you Ryan.

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Gokul Gopi

Wow..nicely explained!

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RamanKrj

Nice simplified description, thanks !!

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Arika O

Glad to hear it was of help :).

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Arika O

Thank you Leonid 🙏!

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Liviu Lupei

Awesome series. Love it.

And then Junior Developer comes along and says:
"All browsers are basically the same nowadays. If it works in Chrome, it works in all of them, because I'm using React."

Wait, are you saying that a browser is more than just a JavaScript interpreter?
Shocking.

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Wen Danny

Thank you for sharing

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Mmmad Amin Mahjub Asl

Very good explanation
Thanks

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Ambriel Goshi

Wonderful post

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Varek

Thank you.