IFB102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tim Berners-Lee, Web Browser, Web 2.0
Document Summary
Internet is not web, internet came first and web is built on top of the internet. Implementation independence: common language of the web insulates clients and servers from one another, urls, http and html work between browsers and web servers. Interactive and collaborative web - beyond passive content and shopping: community oriented. Social networking: wikipedia, blogging, podcasting, photosharing, etc. Increase in connectivity, performance and popularity meant that programs could be built that would run on webservers and accessed through browser: Independent or platform - both client and server: no install, automatically updated, web applications: interactivity and functionality approaching native desktop applications through efficient implementation of javascript, e. g. Google apps, office 360 etc: a light web browser can access traditionally installed applications such as word, email, calendar, move to web sites which can be viewed on mobile devices: phone and tablets. Html: html (hyper text markup language, uses matching tags e. g. to denote a paragraph.
