Week 2- Creating and presenting Web pages across the Internet. Flashcards
What is the role of a web browser?
A browser is a software application used to locate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files. As a client/server model, the browser is the client run on a computer that contacts the Web server and requests information.
What is meant by the terms ‘mark-up’ and ‘rendering’?
Markup refers to the sequence of characters or other symbols that you insert at certain places in a text or word processing file to indicate how the file should look when it is printed or displayed or to describe the document’s logical structure.
Rendering is the process of generating an image from a 2D or 3D model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs.
What is a ‘document model’ in the context of web browser technology?
Document Object Model (DOM). A browser will request all the resources to create the visual representation of a web page. Once it has gathered these it will create a DOM and render it the DOM into the browser area.
What is the role of the hypertext mark-up language (the HTML) in rendering Web pages?
HTML is the computer language that allows creation of webpages.
What are dynamic Web pages and what are the associated processes of client-side and server-side processing?
Dynamic server‐side web pages are pages that have content that will change depending upon the nature of the request. Two reasons for this are time dependence and request customisation.
Dynamic client‐side web pages are pages that have static content that does not change, but have some features that will or may change depending on how the user interacts with the page after it is rendered by the browser.
What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheet- this is used as a reference for the HTML code when formatting (or styling) webpages
What does HTML stand for?
hypertext mark‐up language
