The Modern Web

A Quick Note About Terminology

Throughout the book, I refer quite often to building websites or sites, but this terminology is just convenient shorthand to avoid repetition. The features you’ll learn from this book are relevant to websites, web applications, packaged HTML hybrid applications—in short, anything that can use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. But that’s a mouthful, so I mostly just say “websites,” except when I need to be more specific.

I also use “browsers” and “user agents” interchangeably when what I mean is any instance of software that renders web pages or applications. Again, I’m just trying to avoid repetition. Once more, I’m trying to avoid repetition.