There are tons of browsers in the market which are being used to surf internet. Each browser has its own DOM parser, rendering engine which has its own sense of understanding the content of a webpage pulled from the web server. It parses the html tags, images and displays the same accordingly on the screen. This is the main cause of visual xbi’s in different browsers. Companies are spending a big lump of money only for the look and feel of the sites. Numerous front-end technologies are being developed with time to enhance the web development as independent of different browsers. The main intent of this research is to identify the visual difference in how the images are being displayed by different browsers as there are different rendering engines in the market. Studying the RBG values of an image at pixel level, generating histograms and exploiting the DOM structure to extract co-ordinates of an images helps in studying that how the images in a webpage are rendered by different browsers.

Browser,CrossBrowserInconsistency,Reliability,Webapplication,DOM,RGB

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