Monday, August 31, 2009

The internet, The Web and Electronic Commerce.

HTML


HTML is the short form for Hypertext markup language. HTML defines the organization and design of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. When you write a normal document using a word processor like Microsoft Word/Office, your text is saved in a file with a special format. It is not simply saved as the string of words you typed since the document needs to conserve things like the font you chose, which words are in italics, which bold, and so on. The special format includes not only your words, but all these additional information so that the next time Word opens your document; it can display the document with the precise appearance you created earlier.


JavaScript


JavaScript is encoding language that is used to make web pages interactive, it is also an interpreted programming or script language from Netscape.
JavaScript is used in Web site advance to do such things as:
- mechanically change a formatted date on a Web page
- Cause a linked-to page to become visible in a popup window
- Cause text or a graphic image to change during a mouse rollover

Applets


An applet is a small program that works from within a larger application program. An applet has limited features but only requires limited memory resources. Applets are Java classes that you can execute in a Java-enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. Before applets were introduced, Web sites consisted solely of static HTML content. It cannot operate on its own. Applets are written in the Java programming language. When you use a Java technology-enabled browser to view a page that contains an applet, the applet's code is transferred to your system and executed by the browser's Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Business to Consumer (B2C)


Profit-making activity conducted between a company and an end consumer. B2C is often used to portray the retail part of ecommerce. It is also a form of electronic commerce in which products or services are sold from a firm to a consumer. B2C has grown to include services such as online banking, travel services, online auctions, health information and real estate sites.

Consumer to Consumer (e-Commerce)


Facilitates commerce between consumers. Communications and purchases that occur among individuals without directly involving the manufacturer or retailer. The most famous C2C Company is eBay, the world’s largest personal online trading community, which allows consumers to offer their good directly to other consumers in auction format.

File Transfer Protocol


File transfer protocol (FTP) is an internet service for transferring files between different machines. FTP uses clear-text username and password exchanges and is not considered to be a very secure utility. It automatically takes care of the details of how files are moved, provide a rich command syntax to allow various supporting file operations to be performed (such as navigating the directory structure and deleting files), and operates using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transport service for reliability.

Filters


In computer programming, a filter is a program or section of code that is designed to inspect each input or output request for certain qualifying criteria and then process or forward it accordingly. This term was used in UNIX systems and is now used in other operating systems. A filter is "pass-through" code that takes input data, makes some specific decision about it and possible transformation of it, and passes it on to another program in a kind of pipeline. Usually, a filter does no input/output operation on its own. Filters are sometimes used to remove or insert headers or control characters in data.

No comments:

Post a Comment