WWW Guide - World Wide Web Consortium (WWW)
| | WWW - World Wide Web Consortium WWW is commonly referred to as the web. The web is a network of computers around the world. Computers on the web use a standard language to communicate. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets the web standards |
What is WWW?
WWW stands for World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is often called the web
The web is a network of computers around the world
All computers on the web can communicate with each other
All computers use HTTP communication standards
How does the web work?
Information is stored in files called web pages
Web pages are stored on web servers
Computers that read web pages are called web clients
Programs that view web pages are called web browsers
Popular browsers include Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox, among others
How do browsers get web pages?
A browser retrieves web page data by making a request to a server
A standard HTTP request includes a web page address
Example web address: http://www.w3cschool.cc
How do browsers display pages?
All web pages contain instructions on how to display them
Browsers display pages by reading these instructions
The most common display instructions are called HTML tags
The tag for a paragraph in HTML is: <p>
In HTML, a paragraph is defined like this: <p> This is a paragraph </p>
Who makes web standards?
Web standards are not made by Google or Microsoft
The organization that sets web rules is the W3C
W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium
The W3C sets web standards specifications
The most important web standards are HTML, CSS, and XML