Hypertext: This is a mark-up language that allows for non-linear transfers of data. The method allows your computer to provide the computational power rather than attaching to a mainframe and waiting for it to do the work for you.

 

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Hypertext: This is a mark-up language that allows for non-linear transfers of data. The method allows your computer to provide the computational power rather than attaching to a mainframe and waiting f . . . View Full Definition

Hypertext Novel: Also called hyperfiction, a hypertext novel is one written using some variant of HTML programming languages and published online or on CD-ROM. The hypertext code allows a reader to click on . . . View Full Definition

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): The protocol that dictates the methods browsers and servers use to communicate over the Internet. HTTP allows a web browser to request HTML documents from a Web server.

Dynamic Hypertext Mark-Up Language (DHTML): Stands for Dynamic HTML. This term applies to many web design standards such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS where these elements may be intermixed to create more dynamic design elements. By usi . . . View Full Definition

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): A language used to format text files on the web. HTML is based on pairs of tags that are inserted into the text and translate into text formatting, tables, graphics, links, and other common . . . View Full Definition

World Wide Web: The web allows computer users to access information across systems around the world using urls to identify files and systems and hypertext links to move between files on the same or differen . . . View Full Definition

Interactive Novel: A 'choose-your-own-adventure' style novel in which the reader has the option to choose what will happen next, creating a different possible series of events or endings for the narrative. Oft . . . View Full Definition

Web Page: A HTML (Hypertext markup Language) document on the web, usually one of many together that makeup a web site.

Anchor: A word, phrase or graphic image, in hypertext, it is the object that is highlighted, underlined or 'clickable' which links to another site.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP): HyperText Transfer Protocol is the foremost used protocol to communicate between servers and web browsers. Hypertext transfer protocol is the means by which data is transferred from its resi . . . View Full Definition