English Vocabulary for IT & Computing – Web 2.0

November 14, 2009 by maque

This is as simple as it gets.

June 4, 2009 by maque

This is as simple as it gets. You get 4 buttons oddly placed in the screen and if you tap them you’ll get an “about”, a “start”, a “close” and a “lap” function.

. With the press of a button,

May 24, 2009 by maque

. With the press of a button,

ready for web use

May 3, 2009 by maque

PNG was designed with the web in mind and is (by far) the most flexible graphic format ready for web use.

As its name suggests, …

April 20, 2009 by maque

As its name suggests, the cascade in Cascading Style Sheets involves styles falling down from one level of the hierarchy of your document to the next, and its function is to let the browser decide which of the many possible sources of a particular property for a particular tag is the one to use.

the pros and cons

April 11, 2009 by maque

I discuss the pros and cons of absolute and relative text sizing.

Named for the fact that …

April 4, 2009 by maque

Named for the fact that they are classes that aren’t actually attached to tags in the markup, pseudo-classes cause rules to be applied when certain events occur.

As a rule of thumb, … .

March 30, 2009 by maque

As a rule of thumb, if you want a string to be output exactly as you typed it, you can use single quotation marks. This can help your code to run more quickly because the interpreter does not have to parse the string. If you want to take advantage of escape characters such as \n and use variable substitution, you should use double quotation marks.

In simple terms, …. .

March 30, 2009 by maque

In simple terms, it can be said to be a number without a decimal point.

On the one hand, ……. . On the other hand, ……… .

March 30, 2009 by maque

On the one hand, it means that variables can be used flexibly, holding a string at one point and an integer at another. On the other hand, this can lead to problems in larger scripts if you expect a variable to hold one data type when, in fact, it holds something completely different.