csis-390 some web history
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CSIS-390Some Web
HistoryDr. Eric Breimer
How it came to be… Before developing web applications
it is important to know these two things evolved
InternetWorld Wide Web
(WWW)
Are these things the same?
Internet World Wide Web
ARPAnet ARPANET Advanced Research Projects
Agency
1969, Cold War, Military Applications
1969
1970
1971
1972
1977
ARPAnet Originally, network applications for sharing
data and messages 1968-1973 1971 Email concept developed
Person can have an identifier name@network
Virtual mailbox
By 1973 Email was 75% of the ARPAnet traffic File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was developed in
1973
ARPAnet Internet Transition Period 1971-1983 Packet Switching developed and perfected
Instead of point-to-point persistent connections
Robust, fault-tolerant, efficient, survivable
Network of Networks realized on a large scale The ability to connect
different types of networks TCP/IP
Early Internet 1983-1989
No web browsers, no web pages at all… Only…
Email FTP (document and image sharing) Early message board systems (BB systems) Custom client-server applications
Banking Early business to business E-commerce
In 1989 came the WWW The concepts existed, but one man
implemented the concepts and made them real…
WWW concepts Hypertext concept – Documents can have
links to other documents, just click the text URL concept – Documents, computers, virtual
mailboxes, networks can all have uniform identifier to help locate them
Tim Berners-Lee (TBL)
Programmed the first widely-used web browser web server
which formalized the HTTP protocol, and HTML as a standard language
Also, prompted the widespreaduse of URLs
Before the WWW, finding stuff was hard
To find data on the Internet you had to Know numeric IP addresses to locate FTP servers Login anonymously or with a user account Know the folder hierarchy and file name of the
document/data.
People would share this information via Email. browsing the Internet was no possbile, you just
couldn’t do it. Only “insiders” had access to stuff.
Understanding the WWW HTTP instead of FTP
Web Browser instead of FTP client Web Server instead of FTP server
URLs instead of numeric IP addresses Clicking Hyperlink instead of navigating
through folder hierarchies HTML instead of postscript (meant for print
typesetting) and plain text documents.
So these are not the same thing…
Internet Physical network Hardware TCP/IP Packet Switching Network of
Networks concept
World Wide Web
The content Software HTTP URLs Hyperlinks
WWW Infancy1989-1995
1989 TBL invents first web browser and server 1991-93 Al Gore proposes a bill that funds major
Internet initiatives. Money spent on new fiber optic national network Mosaic (first good graphical web browser) was a funded
project InterNIC, which eventually becomes ICANN, is another
notable product of the Gore Bill. By 1995, Internet traffic moves off NSFnet and on to
commercially operated networks (Verizon, UUNet, Sprint, AT&T, and Genuity) ARPAnet NSFnet Internet II
WWW Commercialization Period 1995-2000
1995 – Netscape become a household name Sells web server software…gives away browser for free Reached almost 90% market share by 1996
1995 – 1996 Microsoft scrambles to come out with competing software (Internet Explore and Web Server)
1996-1999 – Browser Wars between Microsoft and Netscape Two versions of HTML are used in practice Browser specific plug-ins become the norm: Flash, RealMedia,
etc.
1997-2000 – E-commerce Commercial Explosion Amazon, E-bay, Online Stock Trading, MP3 trafficking, etc.
Browser Wars 1996-1999
Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Netscape compete to be the #1 browser. In ’96 Netscape dominated By ‘99 Internet Explorer was #1
Microsoft Integrated IE into the Windows OS Forced upon people as the default browser Microsoft paid billions in lawsuit (EU mostly) but still won the war
Netscape makes its source code open, so developers can build upon it. Leads to the Mozilla Foundation, which eventually develops Firefox.
In 2000, AOL buys out Netscape, which is was failing financially This marks the end of the war and beginning of Microsoft’s
dominance in the WWW.
Browser Wars - Significance
Early competition pushed web browsers to the limit. Browsers use to be simple client applications
that could render HTML code.
Browsers became heavy-weight applications Microsoft’s dominance was terrible.
Use proprietary (secret) languages and often fought against establishing open standard languages.
Why Standards?Advantages
1. Accessibility
2. Forward Compatibility
3. Simpler and Faster Development
4. Faster Download & Display
Why Standards?
1. Accessibility2. Forward Compatibility
3. Simpler and Faster Development
4. Faster Download & Display
Standardized web pages look good (and sound good) on all browsers and devices
Device to consider: B&W Kindle Cheap Smartphone Computer connect to
Jumbotron at Stadium Screen readers for the
visually impaired
Why Standards?1. Accessibility
2. Forward Compatibility
3. Simpler and Faster Development
4. Faster Download & Display
Future standards are built on top of current standards
A forward compatible design can accept data from a future version of itself and pick out the "known" part of the data. text-only browser ignoring <img>
tag from a future version.
An extensible design is one that can be upgraded to fully handle the new input format. An example is a text-only word
processor that can be upgraded to handle picture data.
Why Standards?1. Accessibility
2. Forward Compatibility
3. Simpler and Faster Development
4. Faster Download & Display
Faster: You don’t have to build separate websites for separate browsers/devices
Concurrent Development:Content and style can be developed separately by different teams.
Why Standards?1. Accessibility
2. Forward Compatibility
3. Simpler and Faster Development
4. Faster Download & Display
Style/Appearance tags are bloated
Rather than load bloated HTML for every page, just load one style sheet for an entire website
• Example: <center> <b> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=“#880000" size="+2">Sub-title</font> </b> </center>
Rendering Engines Browsers can have two or more rendering engines
Example: parsing standard and non-standard HTML code.
The <!doctype> and <html> tag tells the browser which engine to use.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
Rendering Engines & Validation
Validated HTML code can be rendered faster. Rendering engine doesn’t have to handle
special cases and errors Non-standard HTML will cause a rendering
error Browser will re-render using a more forgiving
“error correcting” engine. Don’t you wish Java had an “error correcting”
compliler?
Validate Validate Validate http://validator.w3.org/
It’s a pain but… At least you know that your web page will
display properly on about 400 different browser variations.
Who cares if the rendering engine is a little slow?
True, on modern PCs you won’t notice the difference.
However, consider that the device rendering the web page could be a tiny device with a 133 MHz processor.
Standards: The Big Motivation
Consider how many different smart phones exist Each uses a slightly different variation of
Safari, Chrome, or some special browser.1. W3C wants web developers to follow the rules
so browsers do not have to be overly complex2. W3C wants browser developers to follow the
rules so web page look as similar as possible on different devices.
Some key things to remember:
TBL is the most under-rated inventor in the last 100 years.
Web Browsers weren’t always so consistent but they may be in the future.
Device-specific apps may not survive if the W3C can continue to innovate.
Tim Berners-Lee (TBL)
Widely recognized as the inventor of HTML (perfecting the concept of hypertext) URLs (paving the way for web browsing) Implemented first web browser (text based)
and web server (unix daemon).
Should be a billionaire but then the WWW wouldn’t be so cool and free.
I love the man! You should love him too.
Web Browser History 1991: TBL makes the first web browser in his
physics labs. Dr. B gets his braces off and discovers Clearasil.
1993: Mosaic (the first real graphical browser) is built. Free, open source, works for Mac’s, Windows, and UNIX. The birth of free porn.
1994: Netscape emerges and starts to sell a lot of software.
1995: Microsoft wakes up, makes a browser, and tries to monopolize the market.
Browser History 1996-1999: Browser Wars…different
versions of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML emerge. While standards go down the toilet…at least a lot cool sh*t was developed.
1998: Microsoft integrates its browser into Windows 98 and 2000 making it #1. before dying Netscape makes its code Open
Source allowing developers to build upon it.
2000: Microsoft wins! Netscape gets bought by AOL. The .com Bust happens! Dr. B contemplates becoming a pop star but then decides to be a professor.
Browser History 2002: Kelly Clarkson (not Dr. B) wins American
Idol!
2003: Programmers who once worked for Netscape form the Mozilla Foundation
2005: Firefox starts to make a serious dent in Microsoft’s monopoly.
2006: Developers start to follow the standards instead of Microsoft CSS is revitalized.
2012: Chrome is poised to overtake IE, which has been #1 for nearly 15 years.
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