My question is what is the subject area that covers web page execution/loading.I am looking to purchase a book by subject area that covers when things execute or load in a web page, whether it's straight html, html and Javascript, or a PHP page. Is that topic covered by a detailed html book, or should I expect to find information like that in a JavaScript of PHP book? I understand that PHP and Perl execute on the server and that Javascript is client side, and I know there is a lot of on-line documentation describing <html>, <head>, <body>, and so on. I'm just wondering what subject area a book would be in to cover all that, not a discussion of the best book or someone's favorite book, but the subject area.
Web Page Execution Internals
php;javascript;html
I'm not entirely sure what you are asking, but here are a few areas that you may want to look at:Web Servers - Handling and processing requests and replying with the required documents or dataHTTP Protocol - Handles the request and transmission of files and other web requestsBrowser Rendering - Drawing of the resulting data of a HTTP Request on the pageYou then have each individual technology which will be covered by their own books, such as HTML, CSS, Javascript etc, however most of these will be tutorials on how to code using these technologies rather than descriptions of how they are rendered and processed.What exactly is it you are trying to achieve? It may be easier to point you in the right direction if you can say what you are trying to achieve.