Web Technology Questions

JavaScript:

- JavaScript is a scripting language developed by Netscape Communications.

- The Netscape Navigator interprets JavaScript embedded into Web pages.

- JavaScript is used for developing web applications.

- It is not dependent on Sun Microsystem's Java language.

JScript:

- Microsoft JScript is an open implementation of Netscape's JavaScript.

- JScript is a scripting language designed to create active online content. ActiveX controls, Java programs, etc can be linked and automated in the web pages using JScript.

- FTP is used to upload the files on the server from the client side where it is installed on the computer of clients. 

- FTP client is checked for the installation of the software and according to that the appropriate directory is uploaded on the hosting server. 

- The hosting server uploads the files that is being created by the user and set the permissions for it so that public can access it. 

- Web hosting uses different directories like HTML that is used as var/www/html that is determined using the FTP client. 

- Initial local directory is being set up using FTP client and it is where the website gets stored. 

- The transfer mode is being determined for the files that need to be transferred either in ASCII or BINARY mode.

var obj = new Object(); or var obj = {};

SQL Server is having a fantastic feature to retrieve data persisted in the form of XML format. The data in the XML format can be retrieved using FOR XML clause appending to the SELECT statement.

It offers 3 modes.

- “FOR XML AUTO": Returns XML elements that are nested, based on which tables are listed in the "from" part of the query, and which fields are listed in the "select" part.

- "FOR XML RAW": Returns XML elements with the "row" prefix (ex: ""). Each column in a table is represented as an attribute and null column values aren't included.

- "FOR XML EXPLICIT": Explicit mode is the most complex shaping method used in SQL Server 2000. It allows users to query a data source in such a way that the names and values of the returned XML are specified before the query batch is executed. 

Web application provides services (Free and Paid) apart from information.

Ex: Online Banking System

It provides Bank  information , Branches & ATM information, Loans information etc...

And It provides balance enquiry, Fund transfer, Bill payments like services.

Web server handles client side and server side validations and helps to deliver web content that can be accessed through the Internet protocols.

Examples:

Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Service)

Apache web server from Apache

Java web server

Pramathi web server etc...

Some important differences between Canvas and SVG:

- Canvas is resolution dependent while SVG is not. 

- Canvas does not provide any support for event handlers while SVG does. 

- Canvas is suitable for graphic-intensive games while SVG is not suitable for gaming.

- Canvas is suitable for small rendering areas while SVG is suitable for large rendering areas like Google maps.

XML, Extensible Markup Language, is an open, text based markup language that provides structural and semantic information to data. XML is a metalanguage that can be used to create other language. It is used to structure and describe data that can be understood by other applications. Using XML, we can separate the user interface from data.

Features of XML :

- XML is a generalized markup language that means one can define his/her own tag sets.

- A valid XML document contains rules and is self-describing.

- The rules that are found in DTD allow the documents to be validated.