Web Technology Questions

Node.js is a framework for web applications built on Google Chrome's JavaScript Engine(V8 Engine).

Node.js is comes with runtime environment on which a cript based on javascript can be interpreted and executed (It is analogus to JVM to JAVA byte code). This runtime environment allows to execute a JavaScript code on any machine outside a browser. Because of this runtime of Node.js, JavaScript is now can be executed on server also.

Node.js is provides a rich library of various javascript modules which eases the developement of web application using Node.js to greater extents.

The Application Cache concept introduced by HTML5 means that a web application is cached, and accessible without an internet connection.

There are three advantages of Application Cache:

1.Offline browsing - users can use the application when they're offline

2.Speed - cached resources load faster

3.Reduced server load - the browser will only download updated/changed resources from the server

The new attributes provided in HTML5 for <form> are: 

a.) autocomplete

– It specifies if a form or input field should have autocomplete as on or off. 

– If autocomplete is on, the browser is able to fill the values based on the values filled by the user earlier. 

– autocomplete works for following input types: text, search, url, tel, email, password, datepickers, range, and color. 

b.) novalidate

- This is a boolean attribute. 

- When present, it signifies that the form-data should not be validated when submitted.

- Yes, HTML 5 can get the location of a user with the use of Geolocation API.

- Use getCurrentPosition() method to get the user’s current position.

- The better way to design the layout of the webpage is by using the <div> tag. 

- The <table> tag is used to present the data in tabular format

"==" checks equality only,
"===" checks for equality as well as the type.

The differences between HTML and HTML5 are:

- Document of HTML is very large as compare to the HTML5.

- Audio and Video tags are not present in HTML whereas HTML5 contains audio and video tags.

- Vector technology is not integral part of HTML whereas HTML5 Vector technology is the integral part of it.

- HTML supported by all old browsers whereas HTML5 is supported by new browser.

- In HTML web sockets are not available whereas in HTML5 Full duplex communication channel is present.