Computer Science 1032A/B Lecture Notes - Gif, Uniform Resource Locator, Joint Photographic Experts Group

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Server goes out to database to get information (info is constantly changing) Html markup languages tells us what to do with the text that is contained within the file and how to display it in the browser. Annotations to text instructions on how text is to be displayed/used. Presentational looking at file should be able to recognize what type. Descriptive puts tags around content and describe what that piece of text is: gml/sgml, html/xhtml, xml. Open standard (w3c world wide web consortium) Structure of an html file (hyper text markup language) Tags (instruction) tell the browser what they should be doing (bolding, underlining: presentation. Content paragraph, title not an instruction. Start tag indicated with angle brackets: End tag indicated with a slash after the opening bracket Tags are not case sensitive ( = ) Start document and end document with