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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Reading Questions: Chapter 9(contd.)

2. It is hard to determine how big the internet is today because it is constantly growing and networks are constantly being created.

5. It interracts in the sense that information is sent through the server to the client. Different users might experience different interfaces while accessing the same data because they might be in different areas and they might experience delays.

7. - ActiveX: A collection of programming technologies and told for creating controls or components. It is similar to a Java applet.
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML): Enables web developers to control and display data the way they now control text and graphics.
- Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL): An HTML-like language designed to make it possible to link time-based streaming media such as sounds, video and animation.

11. With push technology, you subscribe to a service or specify the kinds of information you want to receive and you will receive it automatically from the provider, versus normally where you have to subscribe to i and go find it yourself. It is used to send notifications and alerts to the client.

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