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English Vocabulary for IT & Computing – Web 2.0

maque — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:54:11 +0000

This is as simple as it gets.

maque — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:25:19 +0000

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,

maque — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:02:26 +0000

. With the press of a button,

ready for web use

maque — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:45:33 +0000

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, …

maque — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:56:31 +0000

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

maque — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:53:38 +0000

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

Named for the fact that …

maque — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:37:12 +0000

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, … .

maque — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:28:48 +0000

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, …. .

maque — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:26:08 +0000

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

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

maque — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:14:58 +0000

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.