· The Activity Indicator is the large “e” at the far right of the Menu bar and is animated when Internet Explorer is sending or receiving data.
· The Explorer bar is a slim bar that appears along the left side of the browser window. It contains a number of useful tools, such as the Favorites and History folders, which expand into a small pane when clicked. Continue Reading →
The components of the Internet Explorer window are much like those in other Macintosh applications. You’ll see vertical and horizontal scroll bars as necessary, you can size portions of the window by clicking and dragging, and you can display a ScreenTip by pointing to a button. Here is a list of some other components: Continue Reading →
The final part of the server name, in our example, .com, refers to the domain type. At present seven domain types are recognized:
· .com is a commercial organization.
· .edu is an educational institution, for example, a university.
· .gov is an entity that is part of the U.S. government. Continue Reading →
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and is an address for a resource on the Internet. It actually represents a string of numbers called an Internet Protocol (IP) address, for example, 169.254.69.104. Since it’s much easier for humans to remember names instead of numbers, we typically use URLs. Continue Reading →
· Your Web browser sends the numeric address to a router, which checks the traffic
on the Internet and finds a path that is the least busy to the server that contains the resource you are requesting. Continue Reading →