X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Web page


Personalization

Web pages are personalized based on the characteristics (interests, social category, context, ...) of an individual.

Scrollbar

A common method of altering the look of the scrollbar in Web pages is to use CSS directives to change the scrollbar colors.


Download Cache

Assemblies are downloaded from the Internet when a specific managed object is requested using the <object> tag in a web page.

Information filtering system

Recommender systems are active information filtering systems that attempt to present to the user information items (film, television, music, books, news, web pages) the user is interested in.

Persistent browser-based game

Games relying on client-side technology are rarer due to the security aspects that must be dealt with when reading and writing from a user's local file system - the web browser doesn't want web pages to be able to destroy the user's computer, and the game designer doesn't want the game files stored in an easily-accessed place where the user can edit them.

Referer spoofing

In HTTP networking, typically on the World Wide Web, referer spoofing (based on a canonised misspelling of "referrer") is the sending of incorrect referer information in an HTTP request in order to prevent a website from obtaining accurate data on the identity of the web page previously visited by the user.

Technical writing

An HTML document, such as a web page, frequently has a different layout than a print document.


see also

Alex J. Walling

He still contributes to a regular sports column for the TSN web page and is heard daily on Halifax Information Radio (97.9 FM).

Bookmarklet

Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page.

Charles E. Beard

According to the University of West Georgia’s web page, Beard began as the last principal of the Fourth District Agricultural & Mechanical School, later becoming the first president of the same institution after it grew to become the West Georgia College.

Cross-zone scripting

This type of vulnerability has been exploited to silently install various malware (such as spyware, remote control software, worms and such) onto computers browsing a malicious web page.

Dennis Baron

Baron also explores the new genres that the computer has launched: email, the instant message, the web page, the blog, social-networking pages like MySpace and Facebook, and communally generated texts like Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary, and YouTube.

Jayrock

Jayrock allows clients such as client-side web page JavaScript, to be able to call into server-side methods using JSON as the wire format and JSON-RPC as the procedure invocation protocol.

Jet Set Willy II

-- not 57, as previously stated; associated Web page will be updated soon --> of the rooms, rather than being a superset of it as are the CPC and ZX Spectrum versions.

Memoware

On 12 September Jeffrey Macko wrote, on the subject of maintaining grocery lists on the Pilot: "I'm half tempted to start a pilot site for small useful databases." and Craig Froehle replied "I think that if everybody mailed you their lists of useful stuff, and you put them on a web page for us to copy-n-paste into the Pilot desktop PIM, that'd be real handy."

Microsoft Agent

However, web page agents are only compatible with Internet Explorer, since alternative browsers like Opera or Mozilla Firefox do not support ActiveX.

Murder of Anna Svidersky

Der Spiegel said that Svidersky was famous, albeit posthumously, in a new way—not via traditional media as in the time of Andy Warhol, but as with the Star Wars Kid through the web page/blog/video and google hits.

Niilo Paasivirta

In addition to the Usenet and Paasivirta's own home page, the essays have been published on a web page called Bittivuoto.net, and a computer magazine called Enter.

Project 21

According to its web page, Project 21 is "an initiative of the National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment." Notable members include: Council Nedd II, Michael King, Deneen Borelli, Kevin Martin, Jesse Lee Peterson and Mychal Massie.

Redirect

URL redirection, techniques on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs

Sean Michaels

According to an adult film news web page, in 2003 Michaels was issued a cease and desist order by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on the use of his name due to the similarity it had to WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels.

Standards-compliant

Current use of the term "standards-compliance" generally refers to the adherence to coding practices in relation to the use of HTML or XHTML, with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the layout, colors, and fonts of a web page.

Stylish

A user style may be more or less selective, targeting one specific web page, or several, or all of the pages on one or more domains, or every page on the web.

Zury Ríos Montt

Although her current husband, former U.S. Congressman Jerry Weller, introduced her to the United States under this combined parental surname, she is nowadays best known in her home country as Zury Ríos Montt, using her father's double surname; on her personal web page she styles herself Ríos-Montt de Weller.