 Grey's Introduction to the Web
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Monday, 25 October 2010 DOCTYPES annoy me. Thank goodness for <!DOCTYPE html>. It's sad that XHTML is now obsolete, I quite liked the strict formatting rules provided by it. It made things so much more consistent and pretty. Styles, scripts and meta information go in the head, although the only element it requires is title. Everything that is to be displayed goes into the body. Styles and scripts can also be put into the body, it's not recommended to do it with styles, but it is with scripts. Large Javascript files can slow down a page load immensely, even though they aren't going to start running until the whole page is loaded anyway. It's typically recommended that scripts go at the bottom of the page, above the closing body tag, so that the important parts of the page can load before the fancypants scripty parts. CSS is awesome. Separation of layout and content FTW. (In high school, whenever I mentioned CSS people thought I was talking about Counter Strike: Source...) The i tag (for italics) is being phased out, as it's a tag used for formatting text, and not to denote it's content. Quirks mode is funny. Also a good blog. posted by Grey # 16:31
 Saturday, 23 October 2010
GOD, Blogger is so confusing!!!! Can't we use LiveJournal or MySpace??????????
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/ is so uncool!?!!! posted by Grey # 16:08
Monday, 11 October 2010 Intro to HTML (at the speed of light)
I'll be honest, I already know all about HTML (hypertext markup language). So I wasn't paying attention.
posted by Grey # 22:11
Monday, 4 October 2010
According to United States Senator Ted Stevens, "the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."
The Internet is hardware - servers, routers, switches, cables and tubes. The big ol' WWW is software - it runs on top of the Internet through server applications (like Apache, PHP, SQL, etc.) and protocols (like HTTP). The Internet was a military invention, starting off as ARPANET; a system for army peeps to stay in contact even if one of their routing computers died, because of war or faulty cabling - usually the latter. The Web came from the mind of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, some pretty cool guy at CERN who wanted to share documents with scientists and wasn't afraid of anything. He also made the first version of HTML, which was pretty much just a rip off of SGML. The first web server was a NeXTcube computer - created by Steve Jobs after he was kicked out of Apple (but before he was hired by them again). If Apple executives never fired Steve, the Wub may never have existed. God praise the Apple. posted by Grey # 18:34
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