ViolaWWW is one of the earliest web browsers. It was launched at almost the same time as Erwise . ViolaWWW launched in May, 1992 was written by Pei Wei a student of University of California. While Erwise was the first browser for supporting UNIX computers , ViolaWWW was the second. It was called ViolaWWW because Pei Wei used the Viola language to write the program.
Following are some of the important characteristics of ViolaWWW:
• ViolaWWW uses multifont text
• ViolaWWW functions on single window operation and the "clone" of a copy of any document in other windows.
• It is featured by a History window with the list of documents visited.
• ViolaWWW comprises "Home", "Back" and "Forward" buttons.
• Viola WWW avails a "bookmark" facility
• It is characterized by online help buttons. So, it was made more user friendly.
• The links in ViolaWWW browser are highlighted with button icons. Unlike Erwise browser you have to single click on links to open new pages or view images, etc.
What is a browser?
A browser is a software application that is used to view or browse the websites. Nowadays most browsers are graphical types which can support both textual and graphical messages. The newest kind of Browsers includes Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape navigator and the likes.
ViolaWWW one of the earliest browsers was quite a success when it was launched in 1992.
