by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Phishing takes place when someone masquerades as someone else, often with a fake website, to trick you into sharing personal information. (It’s called “phishing” because the bad guys throw out electronic bait and wait for someone to bite.) In a typical phishing scam,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It contains information about your visit that you may want the site to remember, like your preferred language and other settings. The browser stores this data and pulls it out the next time...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
These questions led to the evolution of the latest version of HTML known as HTML5, a set of capabilities that gives web designers and developers the ability to create the next generation of great online applications. Take the HTML5 <video> tag, for example....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Web pages have also become more expressive with the introduction of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives programmers an easy, efficient way to define a web page’s layout and beautify the page with design elements like colors, rounded corners, gradients, and...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Dynamic web pages began with the invention of the scripting language JavaScript. JavaScript support in major web browsers meant that web pages could incorporate more meaningful real-time interactions. For example, if you’ve filled out an online form and hit the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Web pages are written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the web programming language that tells web browsers how to structure and present content on a web page. In other words, HTML provides the basic building blocks for the web. And for a long time, those building...
