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Web-centric Computing

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Especially Important Vocabulary

All students should be familiar with all of the technical terms listed below. Note that some of the terms are grouped under the heading of a related term.

Accessibility
Audience
B2B
Blog
Client/Server Architecture
client, content negotiation, header, method, middleware, network layer, operating system, request, response, server, session, socket, transaction, proxy
Cookie
Common Gateway Interface
Cascading Style Sheets
cascade, graceful enhancement, media, inheritance, rule, selector, specificity, property
Domain Object Model
Favelet
Hypertext
augmentation, link type, micro-payments, transclusion, versioning
Language
computer language, grammar, macro languages, markup language, programming language, syntax
Metadata
blacklists, filtering, labels, label bureau, PICS rules, Semantic Web, whitelists
MIME
MUDs and MOOs
Network Degredation
catastrophic degredation, graceful degredation
Programming Models/Paradigms
event-driven programming, object-oriented programming, procedural/imperative programming
Quirks mode
RSS
Security
access control, accountability, authentication, authorization, assurance, availability, cryptography, error codes, firewall, hashing, HTTPS, P3P, privacy, protection, risk, risk management, SET, SSL, signature
Self-Organizing Community
Servlet
encapsulation
Sparrow Web Net
Standards
de facto standard, de jure standard
cynicism, optimism, pessimism, pragmatism
Stickiness
State
state, statefullness, stateless, URL rewriting
(X)HTML
attribute, DOCTYPE, DTD, element, tag
block element, in-line element
form, link & meta, span & div, img & object
logical markup, presentational/procedural markup, & presentation/rendering
Web Addresses
URI, URL, URN
Web Graph
distribution, information ecology, Metcalfe's Law, power law, random walk, Zipf's Law
Wiki

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Version:
28 Apr. 2005
CS 3172 Prof.:
J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>

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