Chapter 16

You must have a web browser to access the Web (T/F)

True

Tags in ___ are not predefined: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

XML

The structure of an ___ document is described by its corresponding Document Type Definition (DTD): JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

XML

___ is a metalanguage: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

XML

A cookie is a program that is executed on your computer (T/F)

False

Most search engines use a context-based approach for finding candidate pages (T/F)

False

Network communication was not possible until the advent of the Web (T/F)

False

The computer that is set up to respond to web requests is a web browser (T/F)

False

The internet and the Web are essentially two names for the same thing (T/F)

False

Compare and contrast hypertext and hypermedia.

Hypertext refers to the fact that information on web pages is not organized linearly, but people have to ability to embed links to other information and jump from one place to another on the Web if needed. Hypermedia adds on to this concept, suggesting that this information on the Web comes in many forms past solely text, such as images, audio, and video.

All elements associated with a particular web page are brought over when a request for that web page is made (T/F)

True

Networks have been used to connect computers since the 1950s (T/F)

True

The Web was developed in the mid-1990s (T/F)

True

When we visit a blog, we actually bring the site to us (T/F)

True

A weblog can service as an online publication for "citizen journalists" (T/F)

True

A weblog is the same thing as a blog (T/F)

True

What is a Uniform Resource Locator?

A URL is a standard way of uniquely specifying the location of a website.

What is a website?

A collection of related web pages, usually designed and controlled by the same person or company.

What is a link?

A connection between one web page and another.

What is a web page?

A document that contains or references various kinds of data.

Describe how a web page is retrieved and viewed by a web user.

A user types in a URL into a web browser, which issues a request for the web page to be displayed onto the user's computer monitor. The requested web page is usually stored on another computer; the computer that is set up to respond to the web requests is called the web server.

What is the relationship between a web page and a website?

A website is a collection of web pages.

What is the internet?

A wide-area network that spans the entire world.

What is the Web?

An infrastructure of distributed information and the network software that uses networks as a vehicle to exchange that information.

Tags in ___ are fixed: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

HTML

___ runs on the web server: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

JSP scriptlet

A program designed to be embedded into an HTML document: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

Java Applet

___ runs on a web browser: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

Java applet

What is the markup language? Where does the name come from?

Markup language is a language that uses tags to annotate the information in a document. The name came from the fact that these tags appear to look like someone marked up their writing to specify the details of their work (e.g. which words should be boldface).

The syntactic element in a markup language that indicates how much information should be displayed: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

Tag

What is the different between the Internet and the Web?

The Internet is a network that makes a certain kind of communication possible, while the Web is an infrastructure of information that makes this communication easy, more productive, and more enjoyable by use of the Internet.

Why is a spiderweb a good analogy of the World Wide Web?

The web spans over a large area (i.e. the world) and although is all connected through the same force, and is essentially considered as one whole system, the web has many different locations (websites/web pages) available throughout this large system.

Part of a ___ is the hostname of the computer on which the information is stored: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

URL

Uniquely identifies every web page: JSP scriptlet, URL, HTML, Tag, Java applet, XML

URL