CHAPTER 21. WORKING OFFLINE 222
Acceptable Answer:local or offline
The wordonlinemeans somewhere out on the Internet, not local. Some-
times it is written on-line with a hyphen.
Exam Question 344(p.357): What word means somewhere out on the
Internet instead of right at your computer?
Acceptable Answer:online
We will start by building a simple webpage, offline.
21.1 More Vocabulary
We have defined online and offline. We need a few more words.
Byuserwe mean the human that is looking at your webpage.
Bybrowserwe mean the computer application that displays your webpage
to the user.
Byserverwe mean the computer that is hosting your web page. It receives
requests from the browser and sends webpages for the browser to display.
Byrenderwe mean the process used by the browser to convert HTML into
a usable image.
These and other terms are defined in the glossary in appendix 20 (page 218)
at the end of this book, right before the index.
21.2 You Have A Browser
We assume you have a browser. The “big five browsers” are Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer(IE), Mozilla’sFirefox(FF), Google’sChrome, Ap-
ple’sSafari, and Opera Software’sOpera. Each is free. Just download it,
install it, and you can run it.
For more on browsers, including links to download them, please see Ap-
pendix 22 (page 228).
For this course, we recommend that you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or
Safari for development and testing of your webpages.
Internet Explorer has a bad track record for being far less compliant with
official Internet standards than the other four browsers. However, recent