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Fundamentals of Web Programming

Notes  A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide Web’s
Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users
(whose computers contain HTTP clients that forward their requests).
 An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a
web page, image, video or other piece of content.

 A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing
information resources on the World Wide Web.
 Web browsing history refers to the list of web pages a user has visited recently.

 Tags are instructions that are embedded directly into the text of a HTML document.

2.6 Keywords

DHTML: Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language can be described as a combination of several
technologies like HTML client-side java script and cascading Style Sheets.

HTML tags: Tags are instructions that are embedded directly into the text of a HTML document.
Html: HTML is a markup language. It tells the web browser how to display content.
LaTeX: A document markup language used mainly bye mathematicians, authors, etc. to typeset
their content. It is suitable for representing mathematical formulas.
Markup language: Language that annotates text so that the computer can manipulate the text.
VoiceXML: Used in Voice interaction between humans and computer

Web browser: It is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information
resources on the World Wide Web.
Web server: A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide
Web’s Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users

2.7 Review Questions

1. Discuss the history of HTML.
2. Discuss some of the text manipulating tags used in HTML.

3. List out various advantages and limitation of HTML.
4. Differentiate between singular and paired tags.
5. How to work on web server?
6. What is advantage of HTML?
7. Define the web browser.

8. What is markup language?
9. Make distinction between DHTML and XHTML.
10. Explain the creation of HTML.

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