Web Application Development
- 2. Outline ● History of Web ● Approaches to Web Application Development ● An example application – using Django ● Q/A
- 3. History of Web ● 1991 - First HTML page created by Tim Berners Lee ( using WorldWideWeb the first web browser, and hosted on CERN httpd the first web server) – because physicists wanted to share information
- 4. ● Mid 1990s - Start of Web Development – – ● Evolution of Web Browsers and Web Servers 1991-1995 HTML Only Late mid-1990s – Commercialization of the WWW – 1995 Java Applets, JavaScript – 1996 Flash
- 5. ● 1999 – 2001 – – dot com boom and bust 1999-2004 ● ● ● XMLHTTP - Microsoft's ActiveX component Evolution of AJAX ( wasn't yet coined ) Gmail
- 6. ● 2005 - AJAX – Google Map uses AJAX – Ajax term coined on February 18, 2005 by Jesse James Garrett in an article entitled Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. – AJAX: Comprises of HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, XMLHttpRequest, JavaScript
- 7. HTML5 – buzz word of today ● Currently in development since 2009 ● "Thoughts on Flash" – Steve Jobs ● ● Video, audio, canvas, local storage, web SQL, etc.
- 8. Approaches to Web Development ● Scripting ● Templates ● Hybrid ● Frameworks
- 9. A sample Django application ● Requirements: – Python, Django – MySQL ( or a database server ) ● django-admin startproject myproject ● ./manage.py startapp myapp ● ./manage.py runserver
- 10. Thank you