September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
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- μ-LAW
(Pronounced “myew-lah”) UNIX standard audio file format.
- accessibility
Refers to making web pages available and readable to all users, including those with disabilities such as sight or hearing impairments.
- AIFF
Audio Interchange File Format. Standard audio format originally developed for the Macintosh, which is now supported on PCs as well. It is one of the formats commonly used for distributing audio on the Web.
- alpha channel
In graphics, an extra channel for storing information about an image. The alpha channel works like a mask that applies properties (such as transparency) to the pixels in the image. Other channels typically include color value information—as in the red, green, and blue channels of an RGB image.
- alpha-channel transparency
The method of transparency used by 24-bit PNGs, which use an additional (alpha) channel to store variable levels of transparency (up to 256) for each pixel in the image.
- animated gif
A GIF89a that contains multiple frames and a “control block” for controlling the animation timing and display.
- applet
A self-contained mini-executable program, such as one written in the Java programming language.
- ASCII files
Files that are comprised of alphanumeric characters. Some FTP programs refer to ASCII files as “text” files.
- ASP
Active Server Pages. The part of Microsoft’s Internet Information Server software that allows server-side scripting for the creation of dynamically generated web pages and database functions. Web pages created with ...
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