DIG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Xml, World Wide Web
Document Summary
World wide web is dying, internet is growing. Written in plain text, anyone can create and publish. Program that sits on our computers, goes to a server, gets and brings back information, browser displays. 3 distinguishing characteristics **: websites are resolution independent. In addition to text, often use multimedia elements: by very nature, can contain electronic links to other information. Tags- tell the text what to do **: paired tags tell where to start and end tags, depreciated tags- those no longer in use or improved. Images**: root folder is where we keep everything. In-line- in our folder: external- don"t store image but create link to where image is on internet, relative links - looks relative to site (in-line) and absolute links- goes to a specific link (external) First thing when opening notepad- go to preferences, select plain text not rich text.
