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HTML
Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve
font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
HTTP
HypterText Transfer Protocol
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
An international community that develops open standards for the Web. Created in 1993
Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
organization that develops a variety of web standards and whose members include the
major browser vendors. 2019
HTML Living Standard
a continually evolving standard without version numbers that replaces HTML5. Created
by WHATWG
1945
What year did the idea for generating links from within one document to other
documents is described.
1965
When was the hyperlink invented?
1990
First web browser is created
1995
HTML 2.0 standard published
2014
HTML5 standard published.
Separation of duties
Over time, a move to separate document structure (HTML), document presentation
(CSS), and webpage interaction with the user (JavaScript).
Root Servers
Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
Top level domain
.com .org etc
ccTLD
country code .us .uk
Query string
Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL that provide data for
the web server.
Fragment
Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a hash character (#) and refer to a
certain location within a webpage.
404
The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a requested webpage is
not found.
,Linkrot
When content is removed from the web and the URLs that used to point to the content
now return a 404 (not found) status code.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, a protocol suite that governs how
data packets are transferred over the Internet from one machine to another.
HTTP Request
A message sent from the web browser to the web server.
HTTP Response
A message sent from the web server back to the web browser in response to an HTTP
request.
Content-Length
Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message body.
Content-Type
Media type of the HTTP response's message body
HTTP Server
Identifies the web server software that generated the HTTP response.
HOST (http request)
The domain name for the HTTP requested path.
USER-AGENT (http request)
Identifies the browser making the HTTP request.
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authroity - a standards organization that manages various
internet numbers and symbols, like global IP address allocation, root zone
management, and media types.
ETag
Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web resource.
Affordances
Visual clues that guide the user in figuring out how to use an app.
Separation of Concerns
The design principle of breaking up web content using distinct languages and
documents that overlap as little as possible.
HTML Element
A single HTML structure that is represented with HTML tags.
tag
A descriptive name surround by < and > characters that the web browser uses to
display content
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
A textual language for describing how a webpage is styled for visual presentation.
CSS Rule
Specifies styling properties for specific HTML elements.
JavaScript
A programming language that runs in a browser, enabling webpages supporting actions
like responding to a button click.
DocType Declaration - <!DOCTYPE html>
instructs the web browser about what type of document follows
, <html>...</html>
This element's opening and closing tags enclose everything but the Doctype
Declaration.
<meta>
Specifies metadata, which is data that describes the document's data.
<title></title>
name of the HTML document.
body
enclose all elements and content to be rendered in the browser.
Attribute
Provides additional information about the HTML element and is included only in the
opening element tag.
head
This element's tags contain the document title, document metadata, and various other
elements that are typically not displayed in the webpage.
Void Element
An element that only needs an opening tag.
Chrome DevTools
A collection of web development tools that are built into the desktop Chrome browser.
HTML validator
Checks that an HTML document conforms to the standard.
Deprecated
A feature that is part of a language that is officially discouraged because newer or better
features exist, or because the feature is no longer considered safe.
<p>
A paragraph element; the basic unit of text in an HTML document.
<br>
The Line Break element; creates a line break in a paragraph, such that content after the
line break appears on a new line.
<section>
An HTML5 element that encapsulates a collection of related content.
<h1>
A HTML heading element that typically provides a title for each section. Values range
from h1 through h6.
<!--...-->
HTML comments; a portion of an HTML document that is not displayed by the browser.
<ul>...</ul>
Unordered List element; a collection of items, usually indented and shown using bullets.
<li>...</li>
The List Item element; surrounds each item in a list.
<ol>...</ol>
A sequenced collection of items, usually indented and shown using numbers or letters.
list-style-type
A CSS property that provides the ability to change the bullet used in an unordered list
and offers more numbering options in an ordered list.
Nested List
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve
font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
HTTP
HypterText Transfer Protocol
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
An international community that develops open standards for the Web. Created in 1993
Web Hyptertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
organization that develops a variety of web standards and whose members include the
major browser vendors. 2019
HTML Living Standard
a continually evolving standard without version numbers that replaces HTML5. Created
by WHATWG
1945
What year did the idea for generating links from within one document to other
documents is described.
1965
When was the hyperlink invented?
1990
First web browser is created
1995
HTML 2.0 standard published
2014
HTML5 standard published.
Separation of duties
Over time, a move to separate document structure (HTML), document presentation
(CSS), and webpage interaction with the user (JavaScript).
Root Servers
Thirteen main DNS servers that exist in the world.
Top level domain
.com .org etc
ccTLD
country code .us .uk
Query string
Optional characters to the right of the question mark (?) in a URL that provide data for
the web server.
Fragment
Optional characters at the end of a URL that with a hash character (#) and refer to a
certain location within a webpage.
404
The status code that a web server returns to a browser when a requested webpage is
not found.
,Linkrot
When content is removed from the web and the URLs that used to point to the content
now return a 404 (not found) status code.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, a protocol suite that governs how
data packets are transferred over the Internet from one machine to another.
HTTP Request
A message sent from the web browser to the web server.
HTTP Response
A message sent from the web server back to the web browser in response to an HTTP
request.
Content-Length
Number of bytes in the HTTP response's message body.
Content-Type
Media type of the HTTP response's message body
HTTP Server
Identifies the web server software that generated the HTTP response.
HOST (http request)
The domain name for the HTTP requested path.
USER-AGENT (http request)
Identifies the browser making the HTTP request.
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authroity - a standards organization that manages various
internet numbers and symbols, like global IP address allocation, root zone
management, and media types.
ETag
Entity Tag, an identifier for a specific version of a web resource.
Affordances
Visual clues that guide the user in figuring out how to use an app.
Separation of Concerns
The design principle of breaking up web content using distinct languages and
documents that overlap as little as possible.
HTML Element
A single HTML structure that is represented with HTML tags.
tag
A descriptive name surround by < and > characters that the web browser uses to
display content
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
A textual language for describing how a webpage is styled for visual presentation.
CSS Rule
Specifies styling properties for specific HTML elements.
JavaScript
A programming language that runs in a browser, enabling webpages supporting actions
like responding to a button click.
DocType Declaration - <!DOCTYPE html>
instructs the web browser about what type of document follows
, <html>...</html>
This element's opening and closing tags enclose everything but the Doctype
Declaration.
<meta>
Specifies metadata, which is data that describes the document's data.
<title></title>
name of the HTML document.
body
enclose all elements and content to be rendered in the browser.
Attribute
Provides additional information about the HTML element and is included only in the
opening element tag.
head
This element's tags contain the document title, document metadata, and various other
elements that are typically not displayed in the webpage.
Void Element
An element that only needs an opening tag.
Chrome DevTools
A collection of web development tools that are built into the desktop Chrome browser.
HTML validator
Checks that an HTML document conforms to the standard.
Deprecated
A feature that is part of a language that is officially discouraged because newer or better
features exist, or because the feature is no longer considered safe.
<p>
A paragraph element; the basic unit of text in an HTML document.
<br>
The Line Break element; creates a line break in a paragraph, such that content after the
line break appears on a new line.
<section>
An HTML5 element that encapsulates a collection of related content.
<h1>
A HTML heading element that typically provides a title for each section. Values range
from h1 through h6.
<!--...-->
HTML comments; a portion of an HTML document that is not displayed by the browser.
<ul>...</ul>
Unordered List element; a collection of items, usually indented and shown using bullets.
<li>...</li>
The List Item element; surrounds each item in a list.
<ol>...</ol>
A sequenced collection of items, usually indented and shown using numbers or letters.
list-style-type
A CSS property that provides the ability to change the bullet used in an unordered list
and offers more numbering options in an ordered list.
Nested List
