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| works best for continuous tone images, like photographs. Can represent up to 16 million different colors and has to reduce the file size, which throws away some information about the image. And does not support transparecy. |
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| Works bets for images with a few soild colors, and images with lines, like logos, clip art, and small text in images. Represent up to 256 different colors, compresses the file size so it doesnt lose some information and allows one background color to be transparent. |
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| What does IMG element do for a web page? |
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| The img element is to place an image in your webpages |
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| How do the browsers treat an img element differently? |
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| after reading the HTML page, the browser retrieves each image from the Web server and displays it. |
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| Is the img elemtn an inline element? |
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| Yes because it means that the browser doesnt put a linebreak before or after an image. |
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| Why is an alt attribute a meaningful description of an image? |
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| Because it is displayed in some browsers if the image cant be located and is used by screen readers to describe the image for the visually impaired. |
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| Why is a width of 800 pixels a good rule of thumb for the size of photo imagies in a web page? |
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| Because most photo images that are created by digital cameras are too large for web pages, so you'll need to resize them. |
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| What happens if images on a web page are too large? |
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| it makes it difficult for the browser to use and slow for download and display the web page/images |
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