Block 1, Part 2: The role of standards and the anatomy of basic web pages.

Question 1

define a protocol.

Answer 1

A set of formal rules that govern an action across a network.

Question 2

define CSS

Answer 2

Cascading Style Sheets

Question 3

define XML

Answer 3

Extensible Markup Language, a meta-language that allows users to define their own customized markup, especially in order to display documents on the web.

Question 4

What are the five goals of the W3C?

Answer 4

Web for All
Web on Everything
Web for Rich Interaction
Web of Data and Services
Web of trust

Question 5

What do we mean by the web for All?

Answer 5

Promoting the importance of internationalisation, device independence including mobile web, and web accessibility to make the benefits of the web available to all.

Question 6

What is the Web on Everything?

Answer 6

to make access to the Web by any means as easy as it is from a desktop PC.

Question 7

Web for Rich Interaction

Answer 7

promoting the continued evolution of the Web as a content provider and provider of personalised Web experiences.

Question 8

Web of Data and Services

Answer 8

Promoting both a Web of Data and a Web of services through robust XML technologies.

Question 9

Web of Trust

Answer 9

promoting technologies that enable a more collaborative and secure environment for online interactions: a Web where accountability, XML security, Web Services Security create an environment of trust.

Question 10

What is a DTD?

Answer 10

a document type declaration, required when authoring a webpage.

Question 11

with regards too CSS, what is the selector and declarartion?

Answer 11

selector {declaration}

The selector identifies the part of your XHTML document to whihc the style is applied.

The declaration is contained within braces {} in the following form:

{ property: value; propertyN: valueN; }

Question 12

Give two of the rules that means the a XHTML document has been well formed.

Answer 12

XHTML elements must be in lower-case

elements must be ‘closed’