August
1999 QUESTION 2 Total Marks: 20 Marks |
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| This question is
about HTML. Your answer should be written using HTML, as it it were a web page. You should
include the basic HTML tags that define the document structure. [7] |
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| (a) | Define HTML and describe its purpose. | [3] |
| HyperText Markup
Language. The document format used on the World Wide Web. HTML defines the page layout,
fonts, and graphic elements as well as the hypertext links to other documents on the Web.
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| (b) | An HTML document has a head and a body. Why is this? | [2] |
| The head part of an
HTML document includes general information about the document, and the body is its actual
content. Some web servers allow the separate fetching of just the head part, for checking
the document information without retrieving the whole document.
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| (c) | What are the advantages of using HTML rather than other page-layout or wordprocessor formats? | [4] |
| HTML is easy to learn.
It is device-independent (can be viewed by any HTML aware Web browser). It is well
documented and the specifications are freely available in the public domain.
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| (d) | What are the limitations of HTML? | [4] |
| HTML is not a
typesetting language. It cannot deal with complex mathematical expressions or scientific
notation. What your HTML documents look like is not subject to your total control, as it
would be in printed documents. Physical differences in hardware limit HTML. Users will have different sized monitors and different display capabilities, which limit HTML's usefulness.
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