What to put into web pages (and what will work)

• These will work in virtually any browser
  1. Straight Text
  2. Basic HTML Markup
• These will work in virtually any graphical browser
  1. Inline graphics, including clickable imagemaps
     (Text mode browsers will show the contents of the "ALT" tag; recent versions of Lynx can handle some imagemaps as menus)
     • GIF Format
     • JPEG/JFIF Format
       (most newer versions of all browsers)
     • X-Bitmap Format
  2. Stand-alone graphics
     (most recent browsers handle the above formats themselves; helper applications can extend the number of file types supported)
• These may require a particular browser
  1. Tables
     (different browsers handle different subsets of table commands)
  2. Frames
     (multiple individually-scrolling windows in a document)
  3. Equations
     (still in planning stages, but may start appearing soon)
  4. Usenet News
  5. E-mail facilities
• These generally require helper applications
  1. Movies
     • QuickTime (MOV)
     • MPEG
     • MS Video for Windows (AVI)
  2. Audio
     Various formats: WAV, SND, AIFF, AU
     Some browsers are starting to support these internally on some platforms.
  3. Formatted Text / Word Processing
     • Microsoft Word
     • Rich-Text-Format (RTF)
     • PostScript / Encapsulated PostScript
     • Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
  4. Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML)
     Sends 3-D information to the browsing system, which can then perform the desired rendering and animation locally.