Web Technology Questions

The window.history object can be written without the window prefix.
To protect the privacy of the users, there are limitations to how JavaScript can access this object.
Some methods:

    history.back() - same as clicking back in the browser
    history.forward() - same as clicking forward in the browser

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

- Web browser functions are to provide the resources or information to the user when asked by them. 

- It processes the user inputs in the form of URL like https://www.google.com in the browser and allows the access to that page. 

- URL is used to identify the resources and fetch them from the server and displays it to the client. 

- It allows the user to interact with the web pages and dynamic content like surveys, forms, etc. 

- It also allows the user to navigate through the complete web page and see its source code in the HTML format. 

- It provides security to the data and the resources that are available on the web that is by using the secure methods.

Contextual selector addresses specific occurrence of an element.
It is a string of individual selectors separated by white space (search pattern), where only the last element in the pattern is addressed providing it matches the specified contex.

- localStorage object stores the data without an expiry date while sessionStorage object stores the data only for one session. 

- With localStorage object, data will not be deleted when the browser window is closed while the data is deleted when the browser window closes with sessionStorage objects.

Free command displays memory usage in linux.

URI is known as Uniform Resource Identifier as it identifies the resources requested by clients and fetches them from the server. 

The components that are used in URI are as follows:

- http: is the first thing that is used in a URL and it is used to tell what kind of resource that needs to be retrieved over the server.

 This includes the server details and it is itself a protocol known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is used to fetch the information. 

- Web browsers sometimes use the secure protocol that is represented using HTTPs used in case of secure transaction over the internet. 

- FTP: is also a protocol that is known as File Transfer Protocol that allows the transfer from a file from local computer to server

- Web browser is used to run the software application that allows retrieving, presenting and traversing the information from one place to another. 

- Web browser provides the resources using the WWW (World Wide Web) this can be identified by URI (Uniform Resource Identifier).

- Web browser fetches the data like web page, image, video or other piece of content from the server and displays it accordingly. 

- Web browser uses hyperlinks to display the resources and allow the users to navigate their browsers according to the resources. 

- Web browser defines the application software that is designed for the user to access and retrieve the documents using the Internet.