WebFund 2013W Lecture 3

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Questions to answer

Please answer these questions by midnight Wednesday (January 16, 2013) on cuLearn. (the cuLearn version will be up later tonight)

  1. What is the biggest constrain on the performance of web applications? (one word)
  2. What is the standard that allows web browseers to call external programs? (acronym)
  3. What HTTP command is normally used to request the contents of a page?
  4. HTTP cookies are only sent to a web server when explicitly requested. (true or false)
  5. Cookies are normally parsed by client-side JavaScript. (true or false)
  6. In modern browsers, Which is more of a security risk, browser plug-ins or browser extensions? (plug-ins or extensions)
  7. NPAPI and "Pepper" are standards for browser plug-ins. (true or false)
  8. AJAX potentially increases the performance of web servers by offloading computation onto clients. (true or false)

Questions to ponder

  1. What sort of applications are easy to implement as a web application? What are hard?
  2. What is the history of the web technology stack? Which parts of this stack is more legacy at this point? Why?
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