What is a browsers function?

Answer 1

A browser functions primarily to escort and help you through the Internet. Basically it is your ticket to the world wide web. When you are using the browser, you are able to link from one site to another, save your favorites, send links to other people, etc., etc.

Answer 2

A World Wide Web client or browser connects to a World Wide Web server and asks for a document. It knows which server to connect to and which document to ask for from the information given in a URL .

When the server replies with the contents of the document, the client must display it to the user.

Now, a document can contain plain text to be displayed, it can contain HTML text which needs special formatting, or it can contain multimedia data such as a picture or an audio clip to be displayed or played. The client must decide what type of data the document contains, and so what to do with it. The information about what type of data the document contains is conveyed in a few additional lines of information the WWW server adds to the top of the document. In particular, the line that says what type of data is in the document is called the content type .

Some content types, such as plain text or HTML text, will be dealt with by the client itself. Plain text is easy to display. HTML takes a little more intelligence, as it needs laying out neatly on the screen in appropriate fonts and the paragraphs of text need to be wrapped at appropriate places if the screen is too narrow to display them. HTML can also contain embedded image. To display an embedded image the browser will need to make another connection to retrieve the image , and then it'll need to leave enough space in the text to insert the picture.

Some links in an HTML document will also result in documents being retrieved that contain data that cannot be displayed by the browser itself. In most cases the browser will then send the document data to a separate viewer program to display the image or play the video or audio clip that the document data represents.

Answer 3

A browser is an interface to the world wide web. It brings together several different media (text, images, sound, flash, i.e. multimedia) under one roof so to say.
Modern web browsers have multiple functions: Help you "browse" web sites / web pages, act as FTP clients etc.

Refer http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/basics/the_world_wide_web.php3

Answer 4

To display HTML/xhtml (i.e. web pages) correctly.