- 1. How do links make a web site different than a book or magazine?
- Hypertext, remote content can be accessed without embedding the content.
- 2. Why is a well organized navigation system a necessary component of a Web site?
- Ease of use.
- 3. How can visual metaphors used for navigation get you in trouble?
- Visual metaphors can be used incorrectly and cause many problems because they are interpreted incorrectly.
- 4.Why does text flow beside the bottom edge of an image if an alignment isn't specified?
- hat is the default.
- 5.Why is white space important?
- White space reduces the clutter and makes it easier for the user to navigate the web site.
- 6.What is the difference in using <em> or <strong> rather than <i> or <b> ?
- <i>and <b> are typographic and are only used for font appearance where as <em> <strong> are idiomatic and are used for page readers for audio expression.
- 7.Why would you want to choose a special character set?
- For many things including different languages.
- 8.Character entities were frequently used for mathematical operators,as discussed in the text. What relatively new option from the W3C do authors now have for producing even more complex representations? (The answer is on the W3C site).
- The Math Working Group published the fourth draft of MathML version 3.
Character Entity π Example
Pi or π is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter and is approximately equal to 3.14159.
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