Glossary

ActiveX  A relatively new technology invented by Microsoft for embedding animated objects, data, and computer code on Web pages.

anchor  A named point on a Web page. (The HTML tag with the same name is used to create hypertext links and anchors, which explains why the tag is named <a>).

animated GIF  An animated graphic exploiting looping and timing features in the GIF89a format.

ASCII file  A text file that conforms to the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. All HTML files must be saved as ASCII text files (not in any other word processor format) or they will not appear correctly in Web browsers.

attributes  Special code words that are used inside an HTML tag and that control exactly what the tag does.

bandwidth  The ...

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