Don't be afraid to ask: Google comes up with online interactive book
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 20 November 2010, 04:22 IST
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Bangalore:Google has launched an online interactive book on the eve of twentieth anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web.Created by Google Chrome team using HTML5,the online book is a step-by-step explanation of the Web and how it works. Writing on the Google Blog, Chrome Product Marketing Manager Min Li Chan wrote that the book aimed to answer basic questions.He wrote "how do browsers and the web actually work? What is HTML5—or HTML, for that matter? What do terms like "cookies" or "cloud computing" even mean? More practically, how can we keep ourselves safe from security threats like viruses when we’re online? To help answer these questions, we collaborated with the wonderful illustrator Christoph Niemann to publish an online guidebook called "20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web." This handy guide is for those of us who’d like to better understand the technologies we use every day". 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.

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