2. TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE WWW, THE INTEGRATOR OF "CYBERSPACE"

2-2 Interactive "Forms" pages

An important feature of HTML are so-called "forms". Forms allow a server to query the user with a few standard graphic user interface (GUI) widgets like push-buttons, radio-buttons, text editing window and scrolling lists. This information can then be processed by the server. It makes up a powerful query-interface to various kinds of data bases. Because HTML pages can be generated dynamically by a server, such pages can be tailored according to the needs of the user, which is an interesting feature for educational systems. An other feature are interactive maps which report to the server the position of mouse clicks. Such maps can be used to build user navigation aids.

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