Under the hood, a quick look at browser engines
For the better part of the last 10 years, browsing the Internet for most meant using Internet Explorer. However, the recent release of Google Chrome as well as the continued popularity of Firefox, Safari and Opera have given users unprecedented choice in what software to use. But, most users don't know much about the engines and technology that actually powers their particular web browser. Without an engine, all you'd see when you visited Neowin.net, or any other website, would be the raw HTML, CSS, and javascript that our developers use to create the site. Sure, you'd also be able to find the content hidden deep within all those tags and instructions, but not in a pleasing format and without any multimedia enhancements. The browser's engine is what takes all of that code and renders the information for you, on the fly. Today, most of the Internet is rendered by four main browser engines. Trident, Gecko, WebKit and Presto. Neowin takes you under the hood and gives you a