Exploring the Internet -
Class #7 and #8
"Multimedia on the Web"
Graphics Formats Used on the Web:
| Abbreviation | Name | Uses |
| BMP | Bit Map | Desktop background, Scanned images |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | Simple diagrams, shapes, images with few colors. |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | Digital camera photographs |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | Web graphics |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | Photographs used by printing industry |
Audio Formats Used on the Web:
| Format | Description | Format | Description |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding | WAV | Windows waveform |
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format | WMA | Windows Media Audio |
| ASF | Advanced Streaming Format | RA | RealAudio sound file |
| MP3 | Moving Pictures Experts Group Audio Layer 3 |