first step before getting into webtechnology

First step to webtechnology
Before studying any subjects we should ask questions
I want to ask you one question ? .
whether first step to webtechnology is studying about html
why first semester we are studying computer organisation and architecture.
You may think that I am deviating from my topic but actually I'm not.
The answer is Is your program is efficient actually?
you can't say it unless you know it's architecture.you really might have done a efficient program but if you don't know the memory architecture of that system where your program is going to run, your program is notupto 100% efficient for that architecture
Is there any relationship with the webtechnology concept.
yes obviously .Here comes the concept of Browser However you are good at webtechnology concepts if you are not having an fair idea about the browser(specifically rendering engine) your web program might not been an efficient one. Because browser is the underlying architecture your web program is going to run One more question you have to ask here. In that case for which browser I have to adopt my style?
It's all depends upon your visitor who are the revenue for your site.
so for a good webprogrammer the following are needed
(1)good knowledge about browsers
(2)good interaction with visitors
(3)thinking in terms of a end users




Nutshell about Browsers
A software application that enables user to browse web content
It can handle multiple types of media like text, image, video & audio etc
HTTP is the primary associated protocol
Pages are located using URLs The top most browsers prevailing now are
Netscape Navigator
Internet Explorer
FireFox
Opera
Safari
Google Chrome

Layout Engines
The underlying technology behind each browser Decides the rendering abilities of the browser Various engines are available like Gecko=>Mozilla firefox
Trident=>Internet explorer
Presto engine
KHTML
WebKit=>safari,chrome
etc

Conclusion
Each browser has its own merits and pitfalls The choice of browser should also be made on various criteria like Target Hardware Target Platform the type of content apart from the target audience