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ISDS 3105 Exam 1- correct answer ✔✔
Syntax - correct answer ✔✔the rules governing how a language should be used and interpreted. HTML 5
Network - correct answer ✔✔a structure in which information and services are shared among devices
(hosts and nodes)
Node - correct answer ✔✔A network location that can access and share information and services.
Host - correct answer ✔✔Any network device that is capable of sending and/or receiving data
electronically
Server - correct answer ✔✔A host that provides information or a service to other devices on the
network
Client - correct answer ✔✔A device that receives network information or services.
Client-server network - correct answer ✔✔A common network design in which clients access
information provided by one or more servers
Local area network or LAN. - correct answer ✔✔A network confined to a small geographic area, such as
within a building or department
wide area network or WAN. - correct answer ✔✔A network that covers a wider area, such as several
buildings or cities; typically consist of two or more interconnected local area networks
,Internet - correct answer ✔✔The largest WAN in existence; incorporates an almost uncountable number
of networks and hosts involving computers, mobile devices (such as phones, tablets, and so forth), MP3
players, and gaming systems;
The biggest obstacle to effectively using the Internet is - correct answer ✔✔the network's sheer scope
and size.
When and who developed a system of hypertext documents that may the internet more usable? -
correct answer ✔✔1989 by Timothy Berners-Lee and other researchers at the CERN nuclear research
facility near Geneva, Switzerland
Hypertext - correct answer ✔✔A method of organizing information in which data sources are
interconnected through a series of hyperlinks that users activate to jump from one data source to
another
Hyperlink - correct answer ✔✔A link within a hypertext document that can be activated to access a data
source.
Hypertext is ideally suited for the Internet because? - correct answer ✔✔End users don't need to know
where a particular document, information source, or service is located—they only need to know how to
activate the link
World Wide Web - correct answer ✔✔The totality of these interconnected hypertext documents on the
Internet; not the same as the internet
Web Server - correct answer ✔✔A server that stores documents on the web and makes web pages
accessible to the network
Web Pages - correct answer ✔✔A document stored by a web server and accessed by a web browser; a
simple text file written in HTML
Web browser - correct answer ✔✔A software program that retrieves and displays web pages; retrieves
the document from the web server and renders it locally in a form that is readable on a client device
,HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) - correct answer ✔✔A markup language that supports the tagging
of distinct document elements and connecting documents through hypertext links
Markup Language - correct answer ✔✔a language that describes the content and structure of a
document by "marking up" or tagging, different document elements;
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - correct answer ✔✔A group of web designers and programmers
that set the standards or specifications for browser manufacturers to follow; has no enforcement power,
but, because using a uniform language is in everyone's best interest, the recommendations are usually
followed; Each new version of HTML goes through years of discussion and testing before it is formally
adopted as the accepted standard
HTML 4.01 - correct answer ✔✔The fourth version of HTML, released in 1999, that provided support for
multimedia, online commerce, and interactive scripts; had many incompatibilities in how HTML was
implemented across different browsers and how HTML code was written by web developers.
XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) - correct answer ✔✔create in an attempt by WC3 take
control of what had been a haphazard process and enforce a stricter set of standards; A version of HTML
in which syntax standards are strictly enforced. Was supposed to be replaced with XHTML 2.0 after 2002
but 2.0 was rejected due to its inability to be backward compatible with HTML and, as a result, older
websites could not be easily brought into the new standard; by 2006, work on XHTML 2.0 had
completely stalled
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) - correct answer ✔✔A group formed
in 2004 to develop HTML5 as a rival version to XHTML 2.0; in 2006 W3C issued a new charter for
WHATWG to develop HTML5 as the de facto standard for the next generation of HTML
HTML5 - correct answer ✔✔the latest version of HTML, compatible with earlier HTML releases and
without the same strict standards that XHTML demanded
deprecated - correct answer ✔✔The features and code from earlier HTML versions that have been
phased out and are either no longer supported or developed.
, HTML documents are simple text files that can be edited with a text editor such as - correct answer
✔✔Windows Notepad or TextEdit for the Macintosh or popular HTML editors are Notepad++ , UltraEdit,
CoffeeCup, BBEdit and ConTEXT
HTML editors include such features as - correct answer ✔✔syntax checking to weed out errors,
automatic insertion of HTML code, and predesigned templates with the initial code already prepared for
you
IDE (Integrated Development Environment) - correct answer ✔✔A software package providing
comprehensive coverage of all phases of the HTML development process; preferred by professional web
developers working on large websites to simple HTML editors; can be very expensive, but most software
companies will provide a free evaluation period
Validators - correct answer ✔✔A program that tests code to ensure that it contains no syntax errors.
3 steps in creating a site - correct answer ✔✔1 Code
2 Validate
3 Test that your content is rendered correctly
How to test your content rendering - correct answer ✔✔test your code under a variety of screen
resolutions (good on a widescreen monitor might look horrible on a mobile phone), on several different
browsers and, if possible, on different versions of the same browser (users are not always upgraded); At
a minimum you should test your website using the popular browsers; not always possible to load
multiple versions of the same browser on one computer, so, professional designers will upload their
code to online testing services that report on the website's compatibility across a wide range of
browsers, screen resolutions, and devices, including both desktop and mobile devices
The most important factor currently impacting website design is - correct answer ✔✔increased use of
mobile devices to access the Internet; the number of mobile Internet users exceeded the number of
users accessing the web through laptop or desktop devices; web designers must be careful to tailor their
websites to accommodate both the desktop and mobile experience
The first line in an HTML file is - correct answer ✔✔document type declaration or doctype; a processing
instruction indicating the markup language used in the document;
ex. for html5:<!DOCTYPE html> or <!doctype html>
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