Chapter 24 Advanced Web Technologies

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• Introduction
• Conventional Web Pages Are Static
• How A Server Stores Static Web pages
• Fetching Items One At A Time
• Conventional Web Pages Use The Entire Screen
• A Web Page Can Change Part Of The Screen
• The Web, Advertising, And Frames
• Static Documents Have Disadvantages

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• Controlling How A Browser Processes Data
• A Web page can contain stored audio. When the
  user selects an item that corresponds to an audio
  clip, the user's browser plays the audio through
  the speakers or earphones attached to the
  computer.
• Plugins Allow Variety
• A Server Can Compute A Web Page On Demand
• How CGI Works
• Professional Programmers Build CGI Programs

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• Personalized Web Pages
• Dynamic content technologies such as CGI allow a
  server to personalize pages by choosing items to
  display and the order in which to display them.
  Although it helps focus on items that interest a
  particular user, personalized content can make
  pages irreproducible
• Personalized Advertisements
• Web Pages Can Interact
• Shopping Carts
• Cookies

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• Should You Accept Cookies?
• A cookie is a value that a browser and server
  exchange to identify you. Accepting cookies
  allows servers to tailor content and advertising
  to your tastes rejecting cookies enforces
  anonymity.
• A Web Page Can Display Simple Animations
• Active Documents Are More Powerful
• Java Is An Active Document Technology
• JavaScript Is An Active Document Technology
  JavaScript and Java are NOT the same
• The Importance Of Advanced Web Technologies

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Chapter 24 - Advanced Web Technologies

• Terms
• CGI technology
• form technology
• frame technology
• plugin
• Java
• JavaScript
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Dynamic HTML
• Active Server Pages (asps)
• XML