Grinnell Summer 1998 Web Workshop

Advanced Web Technologies

This is clearly a work in progress.

Other Document Formats

XML, The Extensible Markup Language

• To some, the future of HTML.
• Closer to SGML than HTML is.
• Permits authors to define their own tags.

Adobe Acrobat

• Used when layout and pagination are important.
• Becoming a standard for some online journals.

Programming for the Web

JavaScript

• Programming language that permits client-side scripting: programs run in your browser and can generate pages or respond to some actions.

Java

• Programming language that permits one to insert applications into pages. In general, the applications don't interact with the rest of the page.

CGI and Perl

• CGI is technology that supports server-side scripting: programs run on the server and generate HTML pages. Often used with forms.
• For example, the library page that responds to your requests about the catalog is a cgi script (although perhaps not written in Perl).

Server-Side Includes

• A simpler technology for automating or helping with some processes in web authoring.
• Permits insertion of other files, modification dates, current date, etc.

Other Technologies

VRML, The Virtual Reality Markup Language

• Like HTML, but for simple three-dimensional worlds.