Contributing to the Infosphere: e-writing? - The Protocols

• The protocols (Taken from webct Curtin)

Over the years we have seen many changes since the early days of the www the protocols in use remain mostly the same as those proposed by Lee: -

• Http: hypertext transfer protocol is the communications protocol which enables requests to travel from your computer to the server on which the page /information you are requesting is held.
• Url: uniform resource locator – the address
• html: hypertext markup language– the language standard which ‘tells’ web browsers how to display the information
  

For more information see these definition (http://www.isgmlug.org/technology.html) and information on standard generalised markup language -http://www.isgmlug.org/sgmlhelp/exetwhy.htm (SGML).

Another language you might come across references to is ‘xml’: - ‘Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.’