Principle of web design chapter 1
EML
A markup language with capablilities that are essential to software developers creating application for the web
Hypertext
A nonlinear way of organizing information
Element
A pair of HTML tags containing content
Rendering Engine
A program contained in every browser that interprets the markup tags in a html file .
Document Type def
A set of rules that contains all the elements attributes and usage rules for the markup language you are using.
Style Sheet
A set of style rules that describes a documents display characteristics.
Cookie
A small piece of text based data that a web page stores on the users machine
Validator
A software program that checks an html document for a syntactical errors.
SGML
A standard system of specifying document structure using markup tags .
Markup Language
A structured language that lets you identify common elements of a document such headings paragraphs and list .
Cascading Style Sheets
A style language created by a wc3 that allows that allows html authors to write a style rules that affect the disply of web pages.
Well formed document
A syntactically correct HML or XHTML file.
Web Page
A text document that is interpreted and displayed by the web browser software
Tag
An HTML tag includes an opening bracket an element name such as h1 and a closing bracket
Deprecated element
An element that the w3c has identified as obsolete
Void Element
An html element that contains only a single tag and no content .
Attrribute
Code added to an element to provide more information about the element.
Semantic Markup
Descriptive markup that identifies that intended use of document sections .
WWWC
Founded in 1994 at the Massachusetts institute of technology to standardize web markup languages
EHML
HTML 4.01 reformulated as an application of XML
Style Rule
In css text that expresses the style characteristics for an html element .
Metadata
Information about the document itself such as how to present the document or what other documents are related to the current one .
Valid Code
Markup code that conforms to the usage rules for the w3c
MIME
Originally a standard for email mime now defines content types for the web
Root Element
The container element for all other elements in a document .
HML
The markup language that defines the structure and display properties of a web page
Document Type
The section of an HTML document that specifies the rules for the document language so the browser knows how to interpret the HTML
Single Source
To create content that can serve multiple purposes and be distributed to different users and devices .