Web Technology Questions

The major benefits of Ecommerce are:

- Secure       : More secure than a cheque.

- Fast           : The transactions take not more than a few seconds

- Always on  : The purchases can be made 24/7

- Convenient:  Ease of purchasing

-Reduced cost price : Reduction of Marketing and Advertising Costs

- A web worker is a JavaScript which runs in the background. It exists in external files. 

 - It is independent of other scripts and does not affect the performance of the page. 

 - Web workers are usually used for CPU intensive tasks.

- 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.

Some of the new features provided in HTML5 are:

- It provides support for local storage

- New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search

- <canvas> element is provided to facilitate 2D drawing

- The <video> and <audio> elements are provided for media playback

- New content-specific elements are provided. For e.g. <article>, <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <section>

Canvas is a rectangular area on a HTML page, specified with the tag <canvas>. 

XPath specifies the path in the XML document which has hierarchical elements. XPath is used with XPointer and XSLT and parser.  

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.

The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.

The <span> tag provides no visual change by itself.

The <span> tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.

EX :

<p>My Car Color is <span style="color:blue">blue</span> </p>