Webquest

Cooking for the Online Desinger

Cooking Tip
Planning, planing and plannig. The more you know the road ahead, the faster you will get to your destination. Before even touching the computer, know what is your message to end users and what you want to design. At this point paper and pencil are the most important tools.
 

Webolution

What were the Browser Wars?

This is the term used to refer to the competition amongst different web browsers to become the most predominantly used to surf the web. The biggest contenders were Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape’s Navigator. However at the end of the 90’s with the bursting of the Internet bubble, other browsers began to appear, amongst them Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera resulting in a more fragmented browser marketplace, with Internet Explorer having the biggest slice.

Why does Internet Explorer Suck?

Based on various articles as well as my own experience, Internet Explores is a terrible browser for the following reasons:

  • This browser does not fully comply with the W3C’s rules as result, the elements in web page might not display as planned by the designer.
  • It also has a serious vulnerability, know as “IE code execution code” which allows hackers to attack computers, besides letting any sort of maleware to enter the computer.
  • Other browsers perform better and faster than Internet Explorer and the only reason why this browser is so widely spread is because 70% of the computer market is PC , which means Microsoft is their operative system and IE is the web browser by default.
HTML, XHTML, XML and their differences
  • HTML 4
    This is markup language created to display content in a consistent way through diverse of platforms and computers. It the begining, HTML was weared towards scholars that wanted to share their scientific research, but eventually it began to develop more, until covering not only other types of media but also the way information in visual displayed.
  • XML
    As a result of HTMl's limitations and rigidness, XML was created. This a extensible markup language that complements HTML and expandans its capabilities. However it continues to use the rules and tag already stablished in HTML
  • XHTML
    This mark up language brings together the best of both worlds. Because it allows the developer to use the preexisting rules and tags from HTML, as well create their own tags and use them without sacrifying cross–platform or machine compatibility.
What is happening with HTML 5?

This new version of HTML, which is considered as one of the most profound revisions done to this markup language, in order to make websites perform better and extend their capabilities. As result of leaven CSS in charge of presentation, in the new version of HTML some tag and attributes have been deprecated such as “font” and “center” and some commonly use semantics have been replaced. However, other features have been included, among them “device element”, “ping attribute” and “hyperlink auditing features” in order to increase functionality and bring standard rules to the interface.

Even though HTML is quite similar to SGML, its syntax is no longer based on this language and it is designed to have backward compatibility with the older HTML versions.