When Netscape released the source code of its web browser in March 1998, it wanted to involve other companies.
The project's licence allows contributors to keep code they supply for the browser secret under certain circumstances.
But Netscape's employees and the browser's source code did not simply disappear.
For that matter, if you turn off JavaScript in your browser the anti-copying code will be disabled.
Third Voice is one of the most innovative pieces of code to hit the Internet since the browser.
Because the browser is stuck waiting for code that will never come.
He found that each one of these associated sites was allowed to store up to the limit of data because browser makers had not written code to stop this happening.
On April 30 of that year, Berners-Lee's then employer would make the technology behind the WWW available license free, bundling a basic browser and some key chunks of code into the deal.
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Essentially, this allows for the translation of code into instructions to make things happen with your browser.
In short, Adobe has embraced the open web, contributing input and code to both WC3 web standards and WebKit open source web browser engine.
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Hi-tech criminals have long known that they can exploit IE's memory management to inject their own malicious code into the stream of instructions a computer processes as a browser is being used.
Not only that, but you can inspect the code on any mobile device as if it were your desktop browser, which takes a lot of the guesswork out of debugging mobile browsers.
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The new browser would ease the burden on networks by using specially written code that reduces the amount of data that has to be passed back and forth when visiting popular sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Like Firefox's, Chrome's source code is free for anybody to change and improve, and even for rival browser-makers to incorporate.
The web is different because most of the code that runs public facing websites can be viewed by anyone with a web browser.
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The browser's user interface is based on the open-source Chromium code.
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Out of the ashes (and source code) of Netscape, Mozilla was born, eventually leading to the release of the Firefox browser.
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Google's engineers contribute code to Firefox and pay the foundation a share of advertising when people search Google in the browser's toolbar.
Several tech sites, including Cnet and The Next Web, have reported that the search firm might next bring the Google Now service to its Chrome browser and possibly its search webpage based on analysis of changes to the firm's code.
We've been trying to murder a (UK-based) GS III here at Engadget, but with no luck as yet -- we can cause the malicious digits to appear in the dialer, but we can't force the stock browser to visit them as a URL, even when trying a bit of URL forwarding and QR code trickery.
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