Tagged: web

Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters | Melon's Thoughts

The goal of linking is about building community and creating networks that truly exist to support you and those around you; those networks will persist when social media lets you down.

Browsing the web - Learn web development | MDN

I really like this explanation of what happens in between the user entering a web address into the browser and the browser displaying the result.

1. The web browser requests the resource you want to access from the web server it is stored on.
2. If the request is successful, the web server sends a response back to the web browser containing the requested resource.
3. In some cases, the requested resource will then fire off more requests, which will result in more responses.
4. When all of the resources have been requested, the web browser parses and renders them as required, before displaying the result to the user.

Just like a word document can be displayed in a word processing application, a web page is simply an HTML document that can be displayed in a web browser. The only difference is that a web page can embed a variety of different types of resources such as styles, fonts, images, scripts, and so on.