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People - Google+ Platform. How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers. Web browsers are the most widely used software. In this primer, I will explain how they work behind the scenes. We will see what happens when you type google.com in the address bar until you see the Google page on the browser screen. The browsers we will talk about There are five major browsers used on desktop today: Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. On mobile, the main browsers are Android Browser, iPhone, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, UC Browser, the Nokia S40/S60 browsers and Chrome–all of which, except for the Opera browsers, are based on WebKit. The browser's main functionality The main function of a browser is to present the web resource you choose, by requesting it from the server and displaying it in the browser window.

The way the browser interprets and displays HTML files is specified in the HTML and CSS specifications. Browser user interfaces have a lot in common with each other. The browser's high level structure The browser's main components are (1.1): if (! About Hangouts with Extras - Google+ Help. Hangout Hackathon Docs.

Plus-hangout-samples - It's sample code... for Google+ Hangout Apps. Starting from scratch is always much harder than modifying already working code. There's nothing like seeing features in action before you try to use them. The Hangout Apps hosted here come in two flavors each with their own intended use. Sample Apps This project hosts several sample apps. They showcase features of Hangout Apps. They are intended to inspire you and provide working examples of many of the available APIs in action. We recommend you start here by creating a Hangouts App project and running these sample apps.

Starter App This is a single extremely simple and somewhat boring hangouts app. A simple ~100 line hangouts app in which you click a button to count with your friends Templates of AppEngine configuration files for hosting your new app A README.txt to walk you through deploying and running a Hangouts App To start with the starter app download the the zip archive. Hangouts API Reference (v0.1) - Google+ Platform. UW Hangout Hangout Hack 2012.