COMPSCI 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Ampersand, Graphical User Interface, Cascading Style Sheets
Document Summary
World wide web is a is not the internet, it is a service. It was for 2 purposes which were archives and research. Archive provided access or sharing capabilities for utilities. (ex: dos- demonstrated how to operate machinery) In dos, dir was known as the directory, type is the content of text file, xcopy was to copy from floppy to hard drive. World wide web grew out of the internet. Html was developed to combine text and graphic and to deal with graphic user interface (click. Ftp: file transfer protocol from one program to another on things/easy access) Html is a markup language and places texts and codes that can be recognized by browser to display things a certain way. Css (cascading style sheets): allows more control over formatting. Extensible in terms of computer means self-modifying (forth was an operating system and coder) Extensible could be meant for extend as it extends ordinary html capabilities to extend.