Wilde's WWW
Subtitle: Technical Foundations of the World Wide Web
By: by Erik Wilde
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9783642958571; 9783642958557
Subjects: Multimedia systems; Information systems; Computer science
Description: The World Wide Web is undoubtedly the development of the decade in the media world. Since its beginnings in 1990, the WWW has evolved from a rather simple model of resource names (URL), a transfer protocol (HTTP), and a language for the description of interconnected information pages (HTML), to a far more complex infrastructure. This book gives a thorough technical description of all relevant WWW developments up to the time of writing, including the latest versions of the transfer protocol (HTTP/1.1) and description language (HTML 4.0), the foundations of the description language (SGML and its upcoming variant XML), style sheets (CSS1), server issues (SSL, CGI, and Apache as an example of a Web server), and some issues that will be of increasing importance in future (MathML, VRML, PNG).
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Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Contents; title: List of Figures; title: List of Tables; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Universal Resource Identifier (URI); title: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP); title: Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML); title: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML); title: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); title: Extensible Markup Language (XML); title: HTTP Servers; title: Miscellaneous; title: A.HTML 4.0 DTD Entities; title: References; title: Glossary; title: Index.