Web Technologies

Exam 26/01/2023

Topics: 

1. Rich Internet Applications (RIA's): (not chosen)

2. HTTP. What is HTTP? Why was it developed? What are the main principles behind HTTP (there are two principles talked about throughout many lectures)? Can you give me some history? How are connections established? What is casheing? Can you tell me about tunnelling? How is this different from Gateways?

3. HTML5. What is it? What makes Hypertext different from just regular text documents? History? What is the difference with Ted Nelsons vision of Hypertext? What are the main shortcomings? How would you describe the use of HTML5 today (separate data from style/functionalities)? What can you tell me about XHTML, what were the main shortcomings and why was it not popular? 

4. Exercises: If you go to a website and you see "This website is only available from the VUB browser", how would you resolve this issue? (last exercise session on privacy)

Topics:

1. CSS

2. HTTP

Topics: 

1. Semantic Web

2. RIA

Exam 28/01/2022

Topics: 

1. Rich internet Applications (RIA's); What are these? How do they try to imitate native applications?  What tools are used to accomplish these RIA's? How does this influence the web search? 

2. HTML: Give a brief history (HESS, Ted Nelson, Tim Berners-Lee), When was it published/brought in use? Give the main differences with Ted Nelsons vision of hypertext. How did the language evolve? What things were added? What was the use of XHTML and what went wrong? Give the main attributes of HTML5 and give some API examples (He went from  Web Sockets  to AJAX and web workers).