The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks. These networks use the standard Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite to share information across the world. The Internet is also interpreted as a network of millions of networks, including private, public, academic, business, and government networks. It allows you to access different websites with the help of its service, World Wide Web (WWW). WWW, also called Web pages, which contain a variety of data that includes graphics, sound, text and videos. You can view a website of Web page with the help of a special type of application, called Web browser, which may be part of Microsoft Windows of can be externally downloaded and installed on your computer. Some common examples of Web browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome. You can create a website of a Website or a Web page with the help of a variety of Web technologies.
Once of the most commonly used Web technologies, to create Web pages is Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). It is a standard that allows you to design static Web pages, where in the content cannot be changed by a user. HTML allows you to use text or images to link two or more Web pages or websites. Such type of text of image is interpreted as a hyperlink. HTML5 is the latest version of the HTML standard that is currently under development. It introduces various new elements, such as VIDEO, AUDIO, and CANVAS. HTML5 has also redefined the capabilities of some existing elements, such as A, CITE, and MENU. Some other Web technologies that you can use along with HTML to develop interactive and dynamic websites are JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet(CSS), and Active Server Pages.NET (ASP.NET).
Internet and Web Technologies
This chapter is divided into two sections, Internet and Web technologies, and HTML5 and its fundamentals. The first section describes the relation between the Internet and Web, and various types of Web technologies that help in creating websites. In the second section, you learn about the fundamentals of HTML5, including new features of HTML5, the structure of an HTML document, the procedure of creating and saving an HTML document, and the procedure of validating and viewing the HTML document.