Study Questions - IN

What is the difference between hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia?

What are the elements of multimedia?

How do quality, resolution, compression, bandwidth, networking protocols all relate?

Which of the tags allowed in HTML are more procedural as opposed to declarative? [Hint: HR is procedural while TITLE is declarative or descriptive.]

Explain briefly the concepts of: anchor, link, web.

What are some advantages of StorySpace as opposed to WWW? Of WWW as opposed to StorySpace? [Hints: Which runs stand-alone? Which can run in client-server mode? Which runs on many platforms?]

What are some ways that multimedia systems can help with education?

What are some of the key technical challenges with multimedia?


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