DHN 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Wide Web Consortium, Html, Browser Wars

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Digital Humanities
• Course: DHN 1100
• Professor: Jada Watson, Constance Crompton

Document Summary

Metaphor: using gui elements to make things easy to find/be comfortable. Command line: black screen typing directly to computer. Old computers would usually not be able to access internet or servers. Internet: network of computers connected to each other. World wide web: part of internet with hyperlinks, html, etc. Founded the world wide web consortium (w3c) to set web language standards. Useful for scholarly things (citing articles, backing up cites, etc. ) Before it was hard to find what you were looking for (similar to yellowpages) Browsers are programs that use html to look on www. Code that tells computer how to add "style" to webpages (font, colour, etc. ) Can be found in a separate . css file. But if you only want certain images to be one size/certain colour for certain things. Something is a command for the browser to do something only to certain items (class= element) Looks for any element that is a quote.