Wilde's WWW
Technical Foundations of the World Wide Web
Published on 16. November 1998
Book
Hardback
XXVII, 594 pages
978-3-540-64285-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides readers with comprehensive details on how the WWW works, complete with definitions and standards. It discusses the latest versions of the transfer protocol (HTTP 1.1), the description language (HTML 4.0), the foundations of the description language (SGML and XML), style sheets (CSS1), web servers, and security (SSL and CGI). Issues of importance for the future development of the WWW are discussed, including virtual reality (VRML), portable network graphics (PNG), and MathML.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 s/w Tabellen
78 figs., 12 tabs.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
1060 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-64285-5 (9783540642855)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-95855-7
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Content
Foreword.- Preface.- Overview.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Introduction.- Fundamentals.- Universal Resource Identifier (URI).- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).- Extensible Markup Language (XML).- Scripting and Programming.- HTTP Servers.- Miscellaneous.- Related Technology.- Appendices: HTTP/1.1 Definitions.- HTML 4.0 Definitions.- XML 1.0 Definitions.- References.- Glossary.- Index.