AdvancED CSS

Today’s Web is quickly evolving from a collection of linked documents to a collection of things with relationships. Where we once only had the simplistic Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to distribute web content, today we have a plethora of formats that include two different varieties of traditional web pages; HTML and XHTML; multiple syndication formats such as RSS and Atom; and many others. Even the content of web pages themselves—text, images, tables, charts and graphs, and movies—have multiple different de facto standard formats like Flash, SVG, and various other dialects of proprietary XML.
Modern browsers use JavaScript techniques such as Ajax to transform themselves into full-fledged application platforms. Thanks to the networked nature of web content, the browser-as-application-platform model is pushing the boundaries of technological innovation at an ever-increasing rate. Web developers have so many different technologies at their disposal that it’s often difficult to discern the appropriate path you should take. 
To get from today’s web of linked documents to tomorrow’s web of things with relationships, web developers need a way to describe these things flexibly, and they need a way to make each thing available in all the different ways it’s going to be accessed. Now that’s a tall order.

- Authors: Joseph R. Lewis and Meitar Moscovitz

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- Published: 2009
- Language: English
- Format: PDF
- ISBN: 978-1-4302-1933-0
- Pages: 358
- Size: 6.74 MB
- Link: AdvancED CSS