Web Technology Questions

A Manifest file is a simple text file that tells the browser what to cache and what not to cache. 

There are three sections of a Manifest file:

i.) CACHE MANIFEST - Files listed here are cached after they are downloaded for the first time. 

ii.) NETWORK - Files listed here require a connection to the server, and are never cached

iii.) FALLBACK - Files listed here specify fallback pages if a page is inaccessible

There are two major platforms that providing hosting and servers to host on. The differences between them are as follows:

- Unix are more efficient in performing offsite and onsite, whereas windows doesn’t provide very good efficiency to work with. 

- Unix provide lower hosting cost for the website using the high bandwidth, whereas windows take more resources and have the cost higher for the storage. 

- Unix is better for the websites that are static and includes HTML and graphics, whereas Windows is used for heavy websites and having more requirements. 

- Unix supports the scripting languages like PHP and databases like MySQL and other related categories, whereas Windows supports IIS, coldfusion and big applications that take more space.

- Files can be transferred to the server by using the FTP protocol also known as File Transfer Protocol. 

- FTP is used as a standard network protocol that transfers the file from one computer to another computer using the TCP protocol network.

- This uploads the pages and other documents that are stored in private disk to the public web hosting server. 

- FTP is used on a client server architecture that allows different controls and data connections between the client and the server. 

- FTP uses clear-text sign in protocol that allows the client to use the user name and password for authentication purpose.

- Virtual domain is the domain of the client on which they can run their applications without having to install the server or hardware. 

- The software need not to be installed physically on the server as it can be done using the local repositories and maintaining the domain locally. 

- Using the virtual domain the server storage space is utilized efficiently and the data can be made more secure before publishing it online. 

- Virtual domains are used to represent the personal Internet web address domain name and can be made with your personal one. 

- Virtual domain provides more security in terms of using your own personalized domain and allows the access to the resources that are on web.

- Basically it is a string that identifies the elements to which a particular declaration or set of declarations will apply. 

- It can also be referred to as a link between the HTML document and the style sheet. 

- It is equivalent of HTML elements.

For example : 

A {text-indent: 12pt}

Here, the selector is A, which is called as type selector.

Web portal is a business gateway, It organizes business operations.

Ex: Online shopping portals, Job portals etc...

It Return true if the argument is not a number.

Client side java script comprises the basic language and predefined objects which are relevant to running java script in a browser. The client side java script is embedded directly by in the HTML pages. This script is interpreted by the browser at run time.

Server side java script also resembles like client side java script. It has relevant java script which is to run in a server. The server side java scripts are deployed only after compilation.