The workspace:
| Screen Resolution | Percentage of users |
|---|---|
| 640 x 480 | 0% |
| 800 x 600 | 17% |
| 1024 x 768 | 57% |
| Greater than 1024 x 768 | 19% |
Nibbling
- Seek balance between the quality and the downloading time of the users.
HTML is a markup language
- Html stands for Hypertext Markup language – tags are used to format text and embed media. The tags are enclosed by angle brackets: < >
HTML and Multimedia
HTML provides tags for inserting media into HTML documents:
- < IMG > tag for inline images
- < EMBED > and < OBJECT > tag for compound document embedding
- < APPLET > tags for code
Text for the Web
- User preferences in the browser may alter the way text in the document looks and flow. Thus the developers design their documents in Times Roman for proportional seriphed font, Verdana for proportional sans serif, and Courier as the mono-spaced font. These fonts have become the default in many platforms.
Images for the Web
All the current releases of browsers recognize there image format –
- GIF (Graphic Interchange File) images are limited to 8 bits of color depth (256 colors).
- PNG (Portable Network graphics Specification) open format to replace GIF.
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) images may contain 24 bits of color depth. But its 10 times more compressed (lossy compression) than GIF.
Sound for the Web
- Browsers have become sound capable: Microsoft Internet Explorer offers the < BGSOUND > tag to play an AU, WAV, or MIDI sound track in document background. Netscape and IE offer QuickTime plug-in for playing AIFF, MIDI, WAV and AU formats.
Animation for the Web
- Macromedia introduced Shockwave to allow the animation and interactivity of Director to be embedded into pages viewed by Netscape navigator. Then Flash was introduced to the scene which also uses Shockwave to create an swf. File in order to be displayed on the web page.
