One of the attractions of the WWW was the use of images and sound to add to the already widely used communication via text. In terms of the space they require and the time they take to download both images and sound can truly be said to worth 1000 words. Indeed 1000 words in a text file might occupy 10Kb while a small image in a gif file can take up many more Kilobytes or even Megabytes. Sound of any length takes up even more room, so that a CD quality 3 minute song could use upto 40 Mb of disk spaceYou will find a directory "gifs" containing a number of image or gif files with these HTML lessons.
Inline images become part of the document and use the tag <img> which has a number of attributes including "align", "src", "ismap" and "alt"
You can use your Document Source function in the View menu to look at the source of this HTML document
Make a new document in your word processor and type the following
Save this document as a text file "inline.htm" and put it in the directory "gifs". Then open it with Netscape and try it out.
Now do the same with this marked up text