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Script Reference
A web page is created based on simple HTML (known as Hyper-Text
Make up Languages). This script helps designer to add text,
images, position them and modify font colour, font types and
size. With this limited function, web designer needs to use
the other tools to produce a dynamic web pages such as:
Cascading Style Sheet
A cascading style sheet (CSS) is a Web page derived from multiple
sources with a defined order of precedence where the definitions
of any style element conflict. The Cascading Style Sheet,
level 1 (CSS1) recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C), which is implemented in the latest versions of the
Netscape and Microsoft Web browsers, specifies the possible
style sheets or statements that may determine how a given
element is presented in a Web page.
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JavaScript
JavaScript is an interpreted programming or script language
from Netscape. It is somewhat similar in capability to Microsoft's
Visual Basic, Sun's Tcl, the UNIX-derived Perl, and IBM's
Rexx. In general, script languages are easier and faster to
code in than the more structured and compiled languages such
as C and C++. Script languages generally take longer to process
than compiled languages, but are very useful for shorter programs.
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Perl / Cgi-bin
Perl is a script programming language that is similar in syntax
to the C language and that includes a number of popular Unix
facilities such as SED, awk, and tr. Perl is an interpreted
language that can optionally be compiled just before execution
into either C code or cross-platform bytecode. When compiled,
a Perl program is almost (but not quite) as fast as a fully
precompiled C language program. Perl is regarded as a good
choice for developing common gateway interface (CGI) programs
because it has good text manipulation facilities (although
it also handles binary files). It was invented by Larry Wall.
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Active Server Page
Internet to applications and related services that would otherwise
have to be located in their own personal or enterprise computers.
Sometimes referred to as "apps-on-tap," ASP services
are expected to become an important alternative, not only
for smaller companies with low budgets for information technology,
but also for larger companies as a form of outsourcing and
for many services for individuals as well. Early applications
include: remote access serving for the users of an enterprise,
An off-premises local area network to which mobile users can
be connected, with a common file server, Specialized applications
that would be expensive to install and maintain within your
own company or on your own computer.
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XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create
common information formats and share both the format and the
data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. For
example, computer makers might agree on a standard or common
way to describe the information about a computer product (processor
speed, memory size, and so forth) and then describe the product
information format with XML. Such a standard way of describing
data would enable a user to send an intelligent agent (a program)
to each computer maker's Web site, gather data, and then make
a valid comparison. XML can be used by any individual or group
of individuals or companies that wants to share information
in a consistent way.
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Java Server Page
Java Server Page (JSP) is a technology for controlling the
content or appearance of Web pages through the use of servlets,
small programs that are specified in the Web page and run
on the Web server to modify the Web page before it is sent
to the user who requested it. Sun Microsystems, the developer
of Java, also refers to the JSP technology as the Servlet
application program interface (API). JSP is comparable to
Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology. Whereas a
Java Server Page calls a Java program that is executed by
the Web server, an Active Server Page contains a script that
is interpreted by a script interpreter (such as VBScript or
JScript) before the page is sent to the user.
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