Design of Web Interfaces

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Design of Web Interfaces

• Dr. Gábor Hosszú and
• Mihály Orosz

E-mail hosszu_at_nimrud.eet.bme.hu
mihi_at_nimrud.eet.bme.hu Media and System Inf.
Lab. Dept. of Electron Devices, BME Room V2
Build. No. 349
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WLAN Access

• Place
• Open reading area at the end of the corridor in
  the Department of Electron Devices (V2 Building
  3rd Floor) in front of the room 323
• Necessary data
• SSID (Service Set IDentifier) eetwap5
• WAP - PSK
• Password (available at the lecture)
• Allowed services
• ssh
• http
• https

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Overview

• Main topics
• Computer network fundamentals
• Basics of the WWW communication
• Extensions of the HTML
• Advanced Web languages

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Basics of the WWW Communication

• Fundamentals of the World Wide Web (WWW) system
  and the necessary background fields
• The HTML language detailed properties
• Basics of the Standard Generalised Markup
  Language (SGML)
• The properties of different browsers
• The role of the plug-ins
• Extensions of the browser software
• The dynamic HTML

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Extensions of the HTML

• Usage and development of Common Gateway Interface
  (CGI) programs
• Advanced web interfaces designed by Practical
  Extraction and Report Language (PERL)
• Introduction to the scripting languages, the
  JavaScript and the WMLScript
• Database connectivity by Hypertext Preprocessor
  (PHP) and Active Server Pages (ASP)
• The language Java and the Java Virtual Machine

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Developed Web Languages

• Multimedia description web languages
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
• Special web languages
• Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language
  (SMIL)
• Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML)
• Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML)
• Multimedia file formats (Vosaic, StreamWorks,
  Internet Wave, VDOLive, QuickTime, RealMedia,
  Windows Media Technologies and Schockwave)