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Trident [1] [2] [3] (also known as MSHTML [1] [2] [5]) is a proprietary browser engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft.. MSHTML debuted with the release of Internet Explorer 4 in 1997.
The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Reardon, [12] who, according to former project lead Ben Slivka, [13] used source code from Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic, which was an early commercial web browser with formal ties to the pioneering National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Mosaic browser.
The first version of Internet Explorer, (at that time named Microsoft Internet Explorer, later referred to as Internet Explorer 1) made its debut on August 24, 1995. [1] It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic , which Microsoft licensed from Spyglass Inc. , like many other companies initiating browser development.
Internet Explorer's market share was closely related to Microsoft Windows's market share as it was its default web browser. After the integration of Internet Explorer 2.0 with Windows 95 in 1996, and especially after version 4.0's release in 1997, adoption skyrocketed from below 10% in 1996 [42] to about 40% in 1998 and over 80% in 2000.
Netscape Navigator is a discontinued proprietary web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its user base had all but disappeared. [2]
Microsoft first introduced the EdgeHTML rendering engine as part of Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows Technical Preview build 9879 on November 12, 2014. [8] Microsoft planned to use EdgeHTML both in Internet Explorer and Project Spartan; in Internet Explorer it would exist alongside the Trident 7 engine from Internet Explorer 11, the latter being used for compatibility purposes.
WET Web Tester [1] is a web testing tool that drives an IE browser directly, so the automated testing done is equivalent to how a user would drive the web pages. The tool allows a user to perform all the operations required for testing web applications – like automatically clicking a link, entering text in a text field, clicking a button, etc.
It is a fork of the same-named JScript engine used in Internet Explorer. Like the EdgeHTML browser engine, the declared intention was that it would reflect the "Living Web". [2] The core components of Chakra were open-sourced as ChakraCore. In 2021, Microsoft terminated support for the engine, citing its transition to a Chromium based engine ...