COMPSCI 1BA3 Lecture Notes - World Wide Web Consortium, Xhtml, Unic

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: COMPSCI 1BA3
• Professor: Anthony Hurst

Document Summary

Hyper text markup language, extensible hypertext markup language. Not a programming tool, code, syntax, rules like grammar. Code that tells the browser how to render the page on your screen, Www is not the internet, it is a service on the internet. Hypertext is a way to organize info on the web. Markup: refers to the symbols in html that allow for text or images in a browser. Extensible html specifies the code to display content on web page must follow certain rule, not really. Slash and triangles must be there for the syntax. Dtd= document type definition metadata info about the document itself(keywords, author, conent) When opening the html file use the view source code or view source. Html is the beginning and the end of the page. Never use to be able to make money off the internet. Meta = the next level therefore metadata= data about the data.