Summary

In this chapter you were introduced to web development in UNIX. You learned of the history of HTML and the efforts of the World Wide Web Consortium to build consensus for HTML standards that browser vendors and web developers could agree on. You learned the basics of HTML markup. You learned about client-side web scripting with JavaScript and about the Document Object Model, which was proposed to make web pages more scriptable. You learned about the push, through the development of Cascading Style Sheets, to separate the content of web pages from their presentation. You learned about server-side scripting possibilities with Common Gateway Interface programs written in the Perl and Python interpreted languages. You learned about the comparative ease of the PHP approach to server-side scripting and how PHP can be used with the popular MySQL database. Finally, you were introduced to existing web authoring solutions for the Linux and UNIX platforms.