November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
8h 20m
English
Text that appears in the position where a graphic will be while the graphic loads. Normally, it identifies the graphic, such as Picture of Kennedy. Because some Web graphics can be very large, providing alternate text enables a user to decide whether to wait for the image to load.
A program that decodes the information for the Web pages you see on your monitor. The dominant browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (Figure 17.1).

The language in which ...