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Who is the client in the client-server model?

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a personal computer

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What are three attributes of the client?

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slower, cheaper, smaller disks

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what is an example of a server?

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student.cs

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what are three attributes of a server machine?

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faster, more expensive, bigger disks

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what are share points?

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folders on the server that are made available over the network

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how are network disks created?

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by mounting a share point

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how are network disks used?

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the same as a local disk

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what is a network folder?

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a subfolder of a network disk

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who can access a web server?

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any client on the web

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10
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what can web servers return?

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only files in the server subtree

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11
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what is a browser used for?

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to request and display web pages

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12
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What decides how to render HTML?

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the browser

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13
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what is a web page?

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a file containing text elements, tags and URL

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What are 4 things that browsers ignore?

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  1. multiple blanks
  2. carriage returns
  3. blank lines
  4. tags they don’t recognize
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15
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describe the case sensitivities of HTML, XHTML, and XML

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HTML: case insensitive
XHTML: tags must be lowercase
XML: case-sensitive

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16
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What does <head> contain?

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information about the page

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17
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where can you add keywords for Google searches?

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<head>
</head>

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18
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what does <title> define?</title>

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the name of the page on the tab

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19
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what are 3 components of table formatting in HTML?

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<tr>: table row
<td>: table cell
<th>: table heading
</th></td></tr>

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20
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what command can you use to nest a table?

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<colspan = n>

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21
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Define the protocol, local name, domain, host domain name, port, and web root folder of the URL: http://jcbserver.cs.uwaterloo.ca:80/cs200/search/search.html

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protocol: http
local name: jcbserver
domain: cs.waterloo.ca
host domain name: jcbserver.cs.waterloo.ca
port: 80
web root folder: slash between 0 and c

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22
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how do you define a space in a URL?

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%20

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23
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what is a common gateway interface (CGI)?

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a convention for identifying a particular application that form data should be sent to for processing

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what are the 4 steps when submitting a form?

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  1. data is sent to a web server
  2. the web server forwards the data to a CGI
  3. the CGI processes the data and returns a web page to the server
  4. the server passes the response to the browser
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what are three differences between GET and POST?
GET shows all entered information in the URL, and POST does not POST is more secure than GET POST is slower to process than GET
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what are logical tags?
named styles that the browser decides how to render
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what are 4 examples of logical tags?

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what are physical tags?
tags that the browser has no choice in how to render
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what are two examples of physical tags?
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how and where are styles defined in HTML?
defined using selectors in
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what do properties do?
attach attributes to selectors like

and

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what are classes?
property bundles that can be applied to properties
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how are classes implemented?
using P.A, P.B, etc. in
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how are classes that are defined in referenced in the body text?
CLASS = A, CLASS = B, etc.
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how are styles in HTML similar to hierarchical styles?
inner elements inherit properties from outer elements
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what is a cascading style sheet?
an external style sheet that can be used by multiple web pages.
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how are CSS styles referenced in the body text?
CLASS = "item"
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what does p{...} do in a CSS?
sets attributes for all

tags

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what does p.name do?
sets attributes for all

tags

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what does p#name do?
sets attributes for only

tags

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how would you set font equal to Palatino in italics in a CSS?
.item { font-family: "Palatino, serif"; font-style: italic; }
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what does font-family: "Palatino, serif" mean in a CSS?
If the browser doesn't have Palatino, use a comparable serif font.
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compare classes and IDs based on the number of uses and how to define them
classes: unlimited uses, define using "." IDs: can only be used once, define using "#"
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what do block-level tags do and what are 2 examples?
cause a line break
and

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what is an example of an inline-level tag?
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what is an inline-level tag similar to?
a character attribute style in Word
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how does
compare to

?

also creates a paragraph, but has no default properties.
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What is the common order of HTML tags?
*added web page features *title bar content *web page content
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what is a web root folder?
a folder containing all the files that are visible to the public web anything in this folder can be viewed and accessed
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what is an example of a web root folder?
public.html
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when should a relative path be used?
when all files are in the web root folder when two files will be moved together
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what is the icon to move up toward the root using a relative path?
../
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how do absolute and relative paths differ in terms of code?
absolute paths have a "/" at the start, relative paths do not
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Where does a relative path start?
on the document containing the link
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what is an advantage of using a relative path?
it is easier to move pages around as you go
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when should an absolute path be used?
when you are referring to something on another page that is not in your web root folder. when two files will be moved separately
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Where does an absolute path start?
at the web root folder.
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which type of path is necessary for files on two different machines?
an absolute path
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if the domain name is present, what type of path is being used?
absolute

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