Common data type on the World Wide Web
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Your web browser does more than just showing you the text on a web page. It, for example, can also show you videos or animations. If your browser is not capable of handling a particular type of data (perhaps a flash or QuickTime video clip), the browser will simply ignore that data and show you other items (if any) on the page. Installing of the necessary plug-ins or software can fix this problem.
In any case, table 1 lists some of the common data types found on the web.
| Table 1 common data types found on the web | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type of data | Extension | Description |
| Text | .htm, .html | Text that you read on a web page |
| Audio | .wav | Microsoft wave sound file |
| .au | A sound file format, stands for audio. | |
| .mid | MIDI sound file | |
| Image | .gif | GIF graphic file format |
| .jpg | JPEG graphic file format | |
| .tif | Tiff graphic file format | |
| Video | .mpg | MPEG video clip |
| .mov | Apple QuickTime video clip | |
| .avi | Microsoft video clip | |
| Animation | .fla | Adobe flash file |
If you just want to view text and graphic, recent browsers can show you that data without any extra plug-in or other upgrades.
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