The “advanced” technology in Web development is actually a fairly broad topic. “Basic” technology would be considered the use HTML tags to create Web pages which post input from forms to the server and provides a response.
Over the years, technology has advanced in several facets. One of those is maintaining “state” (or remembering) the user who visited the Web site. This was done through cookies, hidden form fields on HTTP POST requests back to the server (also known as a “SESSION” in ASP).
Other technologies, such as CGI, variations of CGI in different languages and the use of XML along with XSLT (XSL transforms to format the XML data) have started to modernize the creation of fancy Web pages from data presented in a standard format –without the need to have applications themselves perform the generation of output.
Newer or more apropos “popular” paradigms, such as AJAX (a newly coined buzzword) which do nothing more than have javascript on a page make non-visible requests to the server then dynamically update the User Interface from the asynchronous callback results in a standardized fashion have been used in the past.
Advanced technology, in a nutshell, combines the several portions of server-side and client-side technologies that have accrued over the years. A lot of people (in theory) tend to do most special transformations to data through XSLT/XML on the server side and attempt to keep generated code to a level which most browsers understand (to get the largest audience). AJAX application still require the server to perform special processing to return data back to the client that it will present to the user… however, JavaScript needs to be enabled and needs to support whatever UI changes come from that request.
AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
Web 2.0 and Mashups: a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service.
The “advanced” technology in Web development is actually a fairly broad topic. “Basic” technology would be considered the use HTML tags to create Web pages which post input from forms to the server and provides a response.
Over the years, technology has advanced in several facets. One of those is maintaining “state” (or remembering) the user who visited the Web site. This was done through cookies, hidden form fields on HTTP POST requests back to the server (also known as a “SESSION” in ASP).
Other technologies, such as CGI, variations of CGI in different languages and the use of XML along with XSLT (XSL transforms to format the XML data) have started to modernize the creation of fancy Web pages from data presented in a standard format –without the need to have applications themselves perform the generation of output.
Newer or more apropos “popular” paradigms, such as AJAX (a newly coined buzzword) which do nothing more than have javascript on a page make non-visible requests to the server then dynamically update the User Interface from the asynchronous callback results in a standardized fashion have been used in the past.
Advanced technology, in a nutshell, combines the several portions of server-side and client-side technologies that have accrued over the years. A lot of people (in theory) tend to do most special transformations to data through XSLT/XML on the server side and attempt to keep generated code to a level which most browsers understand (to get the largest audience). AJAX application still require the server to perform special processing to return data back to the client that it will present to the user… however, JavaScript needs to be enabled and needs to support whatever UI changes come from that request.