Articles tagged: WebMechanics

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Glossary/Apple_Safari Safari is a Web browser developed by Apple and bundled with both Mac OS X and iOS. It's based on ...
Glossary/Asynchronous Asynchronous refers to a communication environment (like email) where each party receives and ...
Glossary/cacheable A cacheable response is an HTTP response that can be cached, that is stored to be retrieved and ...
Glossary/Chrome In a browser, the chrome is any visible aspect of a browser aside from the webpages themselves ...
Glossary/Codec A codec (a derivative from " co der- dec oder") is a computer program that encodes or decodes a ...
Glossary/Cookie A cookie is a small piece of information left by a website on a visitor's computer by a website, ...
Glossary/Domain_name A domain name is a website's address on the Internet. Domain names are used in URLs to identify ...
Glossary/ECMA Ecma International (formally European Computer Manufacturers Association) is a non-profit ...
Glossary/ECMAScript ECMAScript is the scripting language on which JavaScript is based. Ecma International is in ...
Glossary/Entity_header An entity header is an HTTP header describing the content of the body of the message. Entity ...
Glossary/General_header A general header is an HTTP header that can be used for both, request and response messages, but ...
Glossary/Google_Chrome Google Chrome is a free Web browser developed by Google. It's based on the Chromium open source ...
Glossary/Header An HTTP header is a field of an HTTP request or response that passes additional information, ...
Glossary/Host A host is a device connected to the Internet (or a local network). Some hosts called servers ...
Glossary/Hotlink A hotlink (also known as an inline link) is an object (typically an image) directly linked to ...
Glossary/Hypertext Hypertext is text that contains links to other texts, as opposed to a single linear flow like in ...
Glossary/Idempotent An HTTP method is idempotent if an identical request can be made once or several times in a row ...
Glossary/Internet The Internet is a worldwide network of networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (also ...
Glossary/IPv6 IPv6 is the current version of the communication protocol underlying the Internet. Slowly IPv6 ...
Glossary/ISP An ISP (Internet Service Provider) sells Internet access, and sometimes email, web hosting, and ...
Glossary/Localization Localization (l10n) is the process of adapting a software user interface to a specific culture.
Glossary/MIME_type A MIME type (now properly called "media type", but also sometimes "content type") is a string ...
Glossary/NAT NAT (Network Address Translation) is a technique for letting multiple computers share an IP ...
Glossary/Origin The origin of some web content is defined by the scheme (protocol), host (domain), and port of ...
Glossary/percent-encoding Percent-encoding is a mechanism to encode 8-bit characters that have specific meaning in the ...
Glossary/Quality_values Quality values, or q-values or q-factors, are used to describe the order of priority of values ...
Glossary/RDF RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language developed by W3C for representing information ...
Glossary/Reflow Reflow happens when a browser must process and draw part or all of a webpage again, such as ...
Glossary/Request_header A request header is an HTTP header that can be used in an HTTP request, and that doesn't relate ...
Glossary/Response_header A response header is an HTTP header that can be used in an HTTP request and that doesn't relate ...
Glossary/REST Representational State Transfer (REST) refers to a group of software architecture design ...
Glossary/RSS RSS (Really Simple Syndication) refers to several XML document formats designed for publishing ...
Glossary/safe An HTTP method is safe if it doesn't alter the state of the server. In other words, a method is ...
Glossary/Search_engine A search engine is a software system that collects information from the World Wide Web and ...
Glossary/SOAP SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for transmitting data in XML format. Firefox ...
Glossary/STUN STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) is an auxiliary protocol for transmitting data around ...
Glossary/Synchronous Synchronous refers to real-time communication where each party receives (and if necessary, ...
Glossary/TLD A TLD (top-level domain) is the most generic domain in the Internet's hierarchical DNS (domain ...
Glossary/TURN TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT) is a protocol enabling a computer to receive and send ...
Glossary/Usenet Usenet is an internet discussion system where each post is duplicated on many servers. The ...
Glossary/User_agent A user agent is a computer program representing a person, for example, a browser in a Web context.
Glossary/WebKit WebKit is a framework that displays properly-formatted webpages based on their markup. Apple ...
Learn/Common_questions This section of the Learning Area is designed to provide answers to common questions that may ...
Learn/Common_questions/Checking_that_your_web_site_is_working_properly So you've published your website online? Very good! But are you sure it works properly?
Learn/Common_questions/How_does_the_Internet_work The Internet is the backbone of the Web, the technical infrastructure that makes the Web ...
Learn/Common_questions/How_much_does_it_cost When you're launching a website, you may spend nothing or your costs may go through the roof. In ...
Learn/Common_questions/Pages_sites_servers_and_search_engines As with any area of knowledge, the Web comes with a lot of jargon. Don't worry, we won't ...
Learn/Common_questions/Upload_files_to_a_web_server Now that you have built a simple page, you will want to put it online on some web server. We'll ...
Learn/Common_questions/What_software_do_I_need You can download for free most of the programs you need for web development. We'll provide a few ...
Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/Installing_basic_software That looks like a scary list, but fortunately you can get started in web development without ...
Web/Guide/HTML/Hyperlink Hyperlinks connect Web pages, or data items, to one another. In HTML, anchor elements define the ...
Web/HTTP/Connection_management_in_HTTP_1.x Connection management is a key topic in HTTP: opening and maintaining connections largely ...
Web/HTTP/Messages HTTP messages are how data is exchanged between a server and a client. There are two types of ...
Web/HTTP/Overview HTTP is a protocol which allows the fetching of resources, such as HTML documents. It is the ...