2.5 I can describe the compatibility issues in different combinations of collaborative tools and devices
Describe the difference between a Proprietary and Open Source software
The term open source refers to software whose source code — the medium in which programmers create and modify software — is freely available on the Internet; by contrast, the source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret.
Describe with images one Proprietary and one Open Source Word processor
The first picture is an example of open source software ( Firefox) The other picture is several examples of proprietary software.
Why are web browser technologies based on open standards. Look at the W3C Standard, The World Wide Web Consortium, founded and headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the main international standards organization for the internet. Describe why they are based on open standards. Web standards are rules and guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) developed to promote consistency in the design code which makes up a web page. Without getting technical, simply it's the guideline for the mark-up language which determines how a web page.
If collaborative tools adopt open standards there are likely to be fewer compatibility problems, why is this? If collaborative tools adopt open standards there are likely to be fewer compatibility problems and it doesn't force everyone to buy technologies from a single supplier who owns a particular standard. A good example of a proprietary standard that for a long time reduced the choice of Word Processors to just MS Word is .doc.
File formats and data structures are one key aspect of compatibility, another is protocols. Protocols are rules used by computers to communicate with each other across networks. Explain this in more detail. Communications protocols have to be agreed upon by the parties involved. To reach agreement, a protocol may be developed into a technical standard. A programming language describes the same for computations, so there is a close analogy between protocols and programming languages: protocols are to communications what programming languages are to computations
Use images and describe what type of Web browser software follows the W3C standards. The type of Web browser software follows the W3C standards are the following Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera.
The term open source refers to software whose source code — the medium in which programmers create and modify software — is freely available on the Internet; by contrast, the source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret.
Describe with images one Proprietary and one Open Source Word processor
The first picture is an example of open source software ( Firefox) The other picture is several examples of proprietary software.
Why are web browser technologies based on open standards. Look at the W3C Standard, The World Wide Web Consortium, founded and headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the main international standards organization for the internet. Describe why they are based on open standards. Web standards are rules and guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) developed to promote consistency in the design code which makes up a web page. Without getting technical, simply it's the guideline for the mark-up language which determines how a web page.
If collaborative tools adopt open standards there are likely to be fewer compatibility problems, why is this? If collaborative tools adopt open standards there are likely to be fewer compatibility problems and it doesn't force everyone to buy technologies from a single supplier who owns a particular standard. A good example of a proprietary standard that for a long time reduced the choice of Word Processors to just MS Word is .doc.
File formats and data structures are one key aspect of compatibility, another is protocols. Protocols are rules used by computers to communicate with each other across networks. Explain this in more detail. Communications protocols have to be agreed upon by the parties involved. To reach agreement, a protocol may be developed into a technical standard. A programming language describes the same for computations, so there is a close analogy between protocols and programming languages: protocols are to communications what programming languages are to computations
Use images and describe what type of Web browser software follows the W3C standards. The type of Web browser software follows the W3C standards are the following Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera.