Tuesday 14 April 2009

Terms and definitions (6)

  • APACHE – A public domain Web server package developed by a group of volunteers. Apache is free with sophisticated features and excellent performance. It is used to host more than 50% of all Web sites in the world.

  • CLIENT SCRIPT – Sometimes called client-side script. Client scripts are usually embedded into an HTML/XHTML document and run by the Web browser to generate special or dynamic features.

  • EVENT HANDLER – A routine inside an application to be triggered by an event such as a mouse click.

  • SERVER SCRIPT – Scripts to be run by a server. Most server scripts are CGI script and used to generate HTML/XHTML documents and return them to a browser. Perl, ASP, and PHP are languages used to write server scripts.

  • EVENT – Any input and/or interaction caused by the user, which could be keystrokes, button clicks, or the position of the mouse pointer.


Lau, Vincent, and P.K. Yuen. Practical Web Technologies. Great Britain : Pearson Education , 2003.

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