Web Technology Questions

Contextual selector addresses specific occurrence of an element.
It is a string of individual selectors separated by white space (search pattern), where only the last element in the pattern is addressed providing it matches the specified contex.

An alert box displays only one button which is the OK button whereas the Confirm box displays two buttons namely OK and cancel.

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

- localStorage object stores the data without an expiry date while sessionStorage object stores the data only for one session. 

- With localStorage object, data will not be deleted when the browser window is closed while the data is deleted when the browser window closes with sessionStorage objects.

URI is known as Uniform Resource Identifier as it identifies the resources requested by clients and fetches them from the server. 

The components that are used in URI are as follows:

- http: is the first thing that is used in a URL and it is used to tell what kind of resource that needs to be retrieved over the server.

 This includes the server details and it is itself a protocol known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is used to fetch the information. 

- Web browsers sometimes use the secure protocol that is represented using HTTPs used in case of secure transaction over the internet. 

- FTP: is also a protocol that is known as File Transfer Protocol that allows the transfer from a file from local computer to server

- Web browser functions are to provide the resources or information to the user when asked by them. 

- It processes the user inputs in the form of URL like https://www.google.com in the browser and allows the access to that page. 

- URL is used to identify the resources and fetch them from the server and displays it to the client. 

- It allows the user to interact with the web pages and dynamic content like surveys, forms, etc. 

- It also allows the user to navigate through the complete web page and see its source code in the HTML format. 

- It provides security to the data and the resources that are available on the web that is by using the secure methods.

I/O operations like reading or writing a file is not possible with client-side javascript. However , this can be done by coding a Java applet that reads files for the script. 

Free command displays memory usage in linux.