Programming and Problem Solving with Java

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Web page in your browser by entering a URL, the browser goes to that page and brings a copy
back to you. Thus the expression “visit a Web page” is somewhat misleading. Your browser ac-
tually visits the other site and brings back a copy for you to view. If the Web page contains a
link to an applet, the code is brought to your browser and run on your browser’s JVM.

HTML

Both browsers and applet viewers read Web pages. To create or build Web pages,

we use the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The term hypertextmeans that the in-

formation is not organized linearly, like a book. Instead, links to other information

are embedded within the text so that the viewer can jump from one place to an-

other as needed within the text. These days, a more accurate term would be hy-

permedia, because Web pages deal with many types of information in addition to

text, including images, audio, and video.

The termmarkup languagemeans that the primary elements of the language

take the form oftagsthat we insert into a document to annotate the information

stored there. In the case of HTML, the tags indicate how the information should be

displayed. It’s as if you took a printed document and marked it up with extra nota-

tion to specify other details, as shown in Figure 14.2.

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Submitted by Justin Parker

First of all, our thanks go out to the following sponsors for their

support of the conference and its supplemental activities.

Allied Interactive

Sybernetics, Inc.

Dynamic Solutions of New Jersey

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The conference was a great success. It ran a full four days, including

workshops and special sessions. Subjective feedback from conference

attendees was largely positive, and financially the revenues resulted

in a surplus of over $10,000.

European Conference on Expert Systems

Final Report

Figure 14.2 A Marked-up Document

Hypertext Markup Language

(HTML) The language used to

create or build Web pages

Markup language A language

that uses tags to annotate the

information in a document

Ta g The syntactic element in a

markup language that indicates

how information should be dis-

played