Good question anonymous – I believe the term may come from the fact that the computer code used to render the image on the screen in the browser is referred to as a page (probably because the code was originally written on paper and converted to 80 column punch cards for a computer to read and convert into machine code so that it can execute a set of instructions, in this case to render a visual representation of what the written code specified. It could also be that the rendering code, HTML or such, is logically broken into separate units which each render as a new screen, (each screen has its own source document that represents one logical display unit, when grouped together these individual units could be referred to as pages of a greater whole, not unlike paging through a book. Although, I am not an expert and could be way of base here.
Why do THEY call them page views when it is on a monitor and not paper?
ReplyDeleteGood question anonymous – I believe the term may come from the fact that the computer code used to render the image on the screen in the browser is referred to as a page (probably because the code was originally written on paper and converted to 80 column punch cards for a computer to read and convert into machine code so that it can execute a set of instructions, in this case to render a visual representation of what the written code specified.
ReplyDeleteIt could also be that the rendering code, HTML or such, is logically broken into separate units which each render as a new screen, (each screen has its own source document that represents one logical display unit, when grouped together these individual units could be referred to as pages of a greater whole, not unlike paging through a book. Although, I am not an expert and could be way of base here.
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