Glossary
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- browser
- The local application you use to connect to an Internet server. It interprets
and displays HTML encoded documents in graphic format.
- client
- The application on your computer that interconnects with a server.
- GIF
- An acronym for Graphic Interchange Format. The Graphic Interchange Format is
a common cross-platform, WWW format for graphics. It was developed by CompuServe.
By definition GIFs are always in 256 colors. Another common WWW graphic format is
the JPEG format.
- HTML
- An acronym for HyperText Markup Language. It is descended from SGML and is used
to "markup" or identify which parts of an .html or .htm text file to display
in which format.
- hypertext
- Computer documents that contain links embedded in text or graphics. Hypertext
links display related information when you click on them.
- Internet
- The largest computer network in the world.
JPEG- A acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group graphic format.The JPEG format
was developed for high-quality photographs and supports 24-bit images. Another common
WWW graphic format is the GIF format.
- link
- These are "hot spots" embedded in text or graphics that display related
information when you click on them.
- local site
- Web pages that are installed on your local computer usually while undergoing
construction.
- SGML
- An acronym for the Standard Generalized Markup Language. This system of tags
is used to delineate parts of a plain text document by encoding the intended formatting
which a viewer application can interpret and display.
- Web page
- A text document which is encoded in HTML, displayed by a browser application,
and accessible from remote sites via the WWW.
- Web site
- The collection of all files which are linked to a central Web page and are available
via the World Wide Web.
- World Wide Web
- The part of the Internet that contains hypertext documents.
- URL
- An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. A specific address used by Web browsing
software to locate and access information on the WWW.