Multimedia Links
You don’t have to surf far to find video and audio images embedded in web pages. Click a link to hear a sound, watch video, or listen to a vocal track. You might be wondering what is actually happening with you click that link.
The answer, of course, depends on where the link goes. Many multimedia links are simply files. As you learned earlier in Hour 17, “HTTP, HTML, and the World Wide Web,” an <a> tag with an HREF attribute is a reference to another resource. In previous examples, that resource was a web page. However, the reference can point to any type of file as long as the browser knows how to interpret the file’s contents. Modern browsers can handle many different types of file formats. On Windows systems, the file extension ...
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