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Picture: A Timeline of Web Browsers [1991 - Present]

upload.wikimedia.org — Here's a chart depicting the evolution of web browsers. A very interesting look at the past and how far we've come. Oh and Firefox FTW!

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  • TrippleHead, on 10/10/2007, -3/+88Something on Digg remotely related to technology?

    Nah, can't be.
  • richbradshaw, on 10/10/2007, -4/+57Great use of SVG!
  • jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51http://www.digg.com/software/Timeline_of_Web_Browsers_from_Mosaic_to_IE_Firefox_Opera

    this had to come up as a duplicate because they are linking to the exact same URL
  • graiz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+46SVG fails on the Mac in both Firefox and Safari. It won't render labels when scrolled in FF and won't scroll at all in Safari.
    Doh! Also SVG doesn't work on IE (big surprise). So only folks with FF on Windows can see this and possibly FF on Linux.
  • baddog121390, on 10/10/2007, -4/+36It works in Opera
  • senorcool, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29I didn't know SlipKnot made a web browser...
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Picture in case you cannot see svg:
    http://www.linkinn.com/_Picture_A_Timeline_of_Web_Browsers_1991_Present
  • JaYBrooks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19SVG is a graphic format. Vectors will display better than rastered images. HTML isn't a graphic file type.
  • atdigg, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21try "define: svg" in Google
  • esotericguy, on 10/10/2007, -12/+29you can see it if you run opera, no problems at all.
    OPERA FTW!
  • wolf08, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16I can confirm that FF in Linux (Ubuntu x64 Feisty) can view this correctly.
  • Ricapar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15You obviously have no idea what SVG is.
  • stormgren, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15That has nothing to do with it. Admit it, you just commented to brag about having a core 2 quad!
  • HigherLogic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Look at Opera all by itself on the bottom there. Introducing the world to tabs, true MDI, and a host of glorious features that every other browser has copied. From version 1 to 9, still chuggin' along and picking up steam, with a wonderful community to back it :)
  • bradkovach, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Scalable Vector Graphics.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3014/timelineofwebbrowsersxa4.png
  • muka3d, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12I didn't even notice that this was an SVG...
    I love Opera!
  • zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Wow. you digegrs disappoint me. this is obviously no longer a tech news site if hardly any of the users don't know what SVG format is.
  • MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Works seamlessly in Firefox. Thought it was a .jpg, until i read your post.
  • FWSquatch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Get a real browser.
  • KayMan2k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Guess what? It work perfectly in Opera as well as Firefox. Enough of all this hype and fanboydom - Opera + Firefox are both great browsers that *mostly* implement proper CSS standards and latest technolgies such as SVG. If you want to get nitpicky, Opera is smaller and faster... and for that is the most popular embedded browser on Earth (cell phones, Wii, kiosks, etc..). Firefox has a stronger marketing force (aka Google) and allows users to expand its core functionality... and is more popular on the desktop for that.
  • xike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Where's CyberDog?
  • zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8yeah. Scalable Vector Graphics are completely useless. forget that flash and shockwave both use SVG for default rendering. forget that you can make an image as big as you want and it will still be smaller than any jpg, gif, png or anything else. what a useless format.
    get an SVG viewer, or get Firefox, as it has one by default.
  • mastercheif, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I miss digg V2 :(
  • hove, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I'm running Firefox in OS X and it doesn't work perfectly.
  • uncleboogie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yay! I finally got to use the side scroll feature on my mouse.
  • AlphaMack, on 09/26/2008, -0/+6...but what about Iceweasel? =D
  • SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7hey thanks! I already knew what SVG was but I never knew about the "define:" feature in google.
    Tip of the hat sir
  • Godlesswanderer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7There was a browser called SlipKnot??
  • Nanobe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Huh? Why does it show IE/Mac branching from IE/Win? IE/Mac shared none of the code from IE/Win. Rather, it was based on the made-from-scratch Tasman engine that Microsoft purchased from some guy in order to quickly enter the Mac browser market.
  • kahrn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I agree with this. Kevin, please make users pass a test before joining (spelling, basic knowledge, tech related, and sometime else) to keep retards away!

    I guess that's going to far. Anyways.. Why the hell are people digging zeromancer down?
  • TenebrousX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6and 9.5 alpha comes out tomorrow! w00t!
  • kahrn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You're saying a format which you have never used (and just incase you didn't know, is endorsed by the W3C) is crap?

    By that definition, I _know_ you're a retard.
  • zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6seems like it has been working pretty well so far.
  • LucasVB, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7And their PNG implementation still sucks!
  • bradkovach, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Clearly: Lynx FTW. Longest life cycle, no forking whatsoever. Lynx FTW.
  • whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Netscape Navigator brings back horrible, horrible memories.
  • tarkap, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yeah, it was pretty nifty for it's time. You used it by connecting via dialup into a telnet session, then you launched a downloader on the server and when you went to a website it would grab the images and html files, then download them to the local computer using the SLIP protocol (used before PPP became widespread), then display the website.
  • dgp1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4SVG: ('ess vee gee') A wonky XML format for vector graphics. Not fully supported by ANY normal browser (IE, Firefox, Safari), SVG is completely unsuitable for use on the Web. Favored by a bunch of dorks who value it for its open-sourciness despite its utter lack of usefulness, for example compared to Flash, which works without a problem in 99% of installed browsers worldwide. See also SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM.

    Freakin' tool, posting an SVG to digg.
  • tupperbacharach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Cannot fathom why anyone would digg down my warning above about the non-SVG version being incomplete. However, I will say it again in the hopes that those seeing just the jpeg version linked by agann will not be inadvertantly mislead: the jpeg is version 1.0 of the web browser timeline and the latest version, 2.7, shown in the parent, is the SVG -- there are several entire families of web browsers missing from the 1.0 version (the jpeg).
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/8514/firefox2eg6.png
  • huertanix, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6and get off the lawn, darn kids and your advanced file formats!
  • buddhistMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm in Safari on a Mac, and it seems to render just fine. If you want to scroll, hold down the Option key, and you'll get a grabby-hand tool.
  • yogione, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Dumb question, but it's bugging me:

    Given that Lynx uses only text, not images, and that the web is so driven by videos and pics, who actually uses Lynx nowadays?
  • Mejogid, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8314/timelineofwebbrowsersgo9.png
    Probably best to get a mirror up.
  • tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You heard the man. Use straight HTML or get off the Web. So no CSS, PHP, PERL, Java, Flash (that might be a god thing actually) or anything else on Xlar54's web, just straight HTML.

    /sarcasm
  • tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What did you think it was? The headline is 'Pic: A Timeline of Web Browsers'. And what is the pic? Why, it's a timeline of web browsers!
  • tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3*Nix users who break X. For the record, I use Elinks.
  • t0mmy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Hey, *****, I use Firefox, but I hate waiting 10 seconds for it to re-render every time i scroll a few pixels.
  • fkuall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I actually used the adobe svg plugin on IE (just for fun, i use firefox, don't worry) and it rendered the fonts better, and it added vertical grey bars at the edge of each year
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