Lesson 5

Question 1

ActiveX

Answer 1

An open set of technologies for integrating components on the Internet and within Microsoft applications.

Question 2

Applets

Answer 2

Small programs written in Java, which are downloaded as needed and executed within a Web page or browser.

Question 3

AU

Answer 3

Audio file format used by Unix servers, the majority of Web servers. Most Web browsers can read AU.

Question 4

Audio Interchange File Format

Answer 4

High-quality audio format developed by Apple Computer.

Question 5

Audio Video Interleave

Answer 5

Standard Windows file format for video files.

Question 6

Cascading Style Sheets

Answer 6

Style sheet language that provides the formatting and “look” of a Web page or document written in a markup language.

Question 7

Codec

Answer 7

A compression / decompression algorithm used by modern video and audio player plug-ins.

Question 8

Disk Cache

Answer 8

Storage space on a computer hard disk used to temporarily store download data.

Question 9

Dynamic

Answer 9

Always changing.

Question 10

Encapsulated PostScript

Answer 10

File format used for importing and exporting graphics.

Question 11

Event-Driven

Answer 11

Reacting to particular user actions or the browser’s completion of a specific task.

Question 12

Geolocation

Answer 12

An HTML5 application programming interface that allows developers to retrieve the geographical location information for a a client-side device.

Question 13

Graphics Interchange Format

Answer 13

A graphical image file format commonly used in HTML documents.

Question 14

Interactive

Answer 14

The characteristics of some hardware and software, such as computers, games and multimedia systems, that allows them to respond differently based on a user’s actions.

Question 15

Java

Answer 15

An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems that is fully cross-platform functional.

Question 16

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Answer 16

A graphical image file format commonly used for photographs.

Question 17

LiveScript

Answer 17

The Netscape-developed scripting language that was the predecessor to JavaScript.

Question 18

Lossless Compression

Answer 18

A type of data file compression in which all original data can be recovered when the file is decompressed.

Question 19

Lossy Compression

Answer 19

A type of data file compression in which all original data can be recovered when the file is decompressed.

Question 20

Moving Picture Experts Group

Answer 20

High-quality audio and video file compression format.

Question 21

MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3

Answer 21

Popular compression standard for audio files; retains most of the sound quality of the source.

Question 22

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Answer 22

A standard computer interface for creating and playing electronic music computers to re-create music in digital format for playback.

Question 23

Objet

Answer 23

An element on a Web page that contains data and procedures for how that item will react when activated. On a Web page, an object is typically a multimedia presentation.

Question 24

Object-Oriented Programming

Answer 24

Programming concept based on object and data and how they relate to one another, instead of logic and actions; C++ and Java are OOP languages.

Question 25

Plug-In

Answer 25

A program installed in the browser to extend its basic functionality. Allows different file formats to be viewed as part of a standard HTML document.

Question 26

Portable Document Format

Answer 26

A file format that can be transferred across platforms and retain its formatting designated by the file name extension .pdf.

Question 27

Portable Network Graphics

Answer 27

An open source graphical image the file format created to replace GIFs.

Question 28

QuickTime

Answer 28

A plug-in developed by Apple computer for storing movie and audio files in digital format.

Question 29

QuickTime Movie

Answer 29

Standard file format for Apple QuickTime; uses the .mov, .moov, or .qt file name extension.

Question 30

Rich Text Format

Answer 30

Portable text file format created by Microsoft that allows image insertion and text formatting; an almost universal format.

Question 31

Streaming Media

Answer 31

A continuous flow of data, usually audio or video files, that assists with the uninterrupted delivery of those files into a browser.

Question 32

Tagged Image File Format

Answer 32

commonly used graphic fule format developed by Aldus corporation. uses the .tif or .tiff file name extention

Question 33

Vector Graphics

Answer 33

Resizeable images that are saved as a sequence of vector statements of, which describes a series of points to be connected.

Question 34

Viewer

Answer 34

A scaled-down version of an application; designed to view and print files.

Question 35

Visual Basic

Answer 35

The Microsoft graphical user interface (GUI) programming language used for developing Windows applications. A modified version of the BASIC programming language.

Question 36

Visual Basic Script

Answer 36

Scripting language from Microsoft derived from Visual Basic; used to manipulate ActiveX scripts.

Question 37

Waveform

Answer 37

A concept referring to the changing trends in the use of WWW technology and Web design that have led to the development of information sharing and collaboration capabilities.