Active Server Pages is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functionality useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Web pages with the ".asp" or ".aspx" extensions use ASP, although some Web sites disguise their choice of scripting language for security purposes.
ASP.net is a web application framework marketed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime, allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any Microsoft .NET language.
Cascading Style Sheets, a new technology being used with HTML to gives both website developers and users more control over how pages and their content are displayed. With CSS, you can create style sheets that define how differentelements, such as headers and links, appear with colors, fonts and other attributes. These style sheets can then be applied to any web page. The term cascading derives from the fact that multiple style sheets can be applied to the same web page.
HyperText Markup Language is an authoring language used to create pages on the Web. It is the base for all code on the Web.
Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devices and mobile phones on the low end to enterprise servers and supercomputers on the high end. Java is fairly ubiquitous in mobile phones, Web servers and enterprise applications, and somewhat less common on desktop computers, though users may have come across Java applets when browsing the World Wide Web.
A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. Although it shares many of the features and structures of the full Java language, it was developed independently. Javascript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to enhance their sites visually with dynamic content.
Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic content on Web pages. In an HTML document, PHP script have similar syntax to that of Perl or C. PHP script is enclosed within special PHP tags. Because PHP is embedded within tags, the author can jump between HTML and PHP, similar to ASP and Cold Fusion languages, instead of having to rely on heavy amounts of code to output HTML. And, because PHP is executed on the server, the client cannot view the PHP code. So the PHP is behind the scenes, only the HTML shows up in the source code.
Short for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a hybrid between HTML and XML specifically designed for Net device displays. XHTML is a markup language written in XML; therefore, it is an XML application.