Revision as of 09:27, 29 May 2008

Just Browsing?

A software "browser" is for many quite possibly the most used piece of software. As a result of it's very persistence and ubiquity, the software may fade into the background, becoming a "natural" and "neutral" part of one's daily (computing) experience.

The original conception of the world wide web was one that supported a variety of means of viewing and interacting with online content. By digging into the underlying network mechanisms, protocols, and markup languages it's possible to create radically different kinds of "browsing" of the material made available via the world wide web.

some examples

Page mashups with python & Beautiful Soup

Some useful tools built into Python:

urllib2
urlparse

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 A software "browser" is for many quite possibly the most used piece of software. As a result of it's very persistence and ubiquity, the software may fade into the background, becoming a "natural" and "neutral" part of one's daily (computing) experience.
-By digging into the underlying network mechanisms, protocols, and markup languages it's possible to create radically different kinds of "browsing" of the material made available via the world wide web.
+The original conception of the world wide web was one that supported a variety of means of viewing and interacting with online content. By digging into the underlying network mechanisms, protocols, and markup languages it's possible to create radically different kinds of "browsing" of the material made available via the world wide web.
 some examples