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==Audio== | |||
An audio recording of the lecture given on January 15, 2013 is [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2013w/comp2406-2013w-lec3.m4a] here. | |||
==Questions to answer== | ==Questions to answer== | ||
Revision as of 17:10, 16 January 2013
Audio
An audio recording of the lecture given on January 15, 2013 is [1] here.
Questions to answer
Please answer these questions by midnight Wednesday (January 16, 2013) on cuLearn. (the cuLearn version will be up later tonight)
- What is the biggest constrain on the performance of web applications? (one word)
- What is the standard that allows web browsers to call external programs? (acronym)
- What HTTP command is normally used to request the contents of a page?
- HTTP cookies are only sent to a web server when explicitly requested. (true or false)
- Cookies are normally parsed by client-side JavaScript. (true or false)
- In modern browsers, Which is more of a security risk, browser plug-ins or browser extensions? (plug-ins or extensions)
- NPAPI and "Pepper" are standards for browser plug-ins. (true or false)
- AJAX potentially increases the performance of web servers by offloading computation onto clients. (true or false)
Questions to ponder
- What sort of applications are easy to implement as a web application? What are hard?
- What is the history of the web technology stack? Which parts of this stack is more legacy at this point? Why?