Saturday, November 20, 2010

Google's online book to teach you Web


NEW DELHI: Celebrating twentieth anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, Google has launched an online interactive book that aims to teach the average person about the fundamental of browsers and the Web.

Called '20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web', the book explains concepts like, TCP/IP, HTML, browser extensions and malware.

Created by Google Chrome team using HTML5, the online book is a step-by-step explanation of the Web and how it works.

The focus of the book is on 19 different topics. Starting from "What Is the Internet?" it goes on to deal with topics like cloud computing, Web apps, Internet Cookies, Web programming languages, browsers, privacy, security and open source.

The book has illustrations by famous German illustrator Christoph Niemann.

In a blog post, Min Li Chan, Product Marketing Manager, Google Chrome, wrote, "For things you've always wanted to know about the Web and browsers but may have been afraid to ask"

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