21-01-2012, 02:08 PM
INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS OVER THE INTERNET
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Interactive application over net.
Internet supports a range of interactive applications.
The most widely used being for interaction is World Wide Web(WWW).
WWW or Web comprises a linked set of multimedia information servers.
These are geographically distributed.
The total information ≡ Vast library of documents.
The general principle is illustrated in the following figure
Applications contd..
The above figure shows hypertext linkages between the pages of a set of documents.
Each document comprises a linked set of pages.
The linkages between these pages are known as hyperlinks.
They refer to other pages of same document or to any other documents within the web.
Reader has the creator of document called anchor.
Documents created using “hypertext”.
Multimedia applications created using “hypermedia”.
