Web Design Vocab 9

Palette, QuickTime, Tweening, Typography, XHTML

Palette• Palette: The number of colors supported

on a computer screen. Palettes are sometimes described by a number of bits in the number of supported colors.

QuickTime• QuickTime: A common video file format created

by Apple Computer. Video files found on the Internet are often stored in the QuickTime format - they require a special viewer program for playback.

Tweening• Tweening: Short for in-betweening, the process

of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. Tweening is a key process in all types of animation, including computer animation.

Typography

• Typography: The art and technique of composing printed materials from type.

XHTML• XHTML: The new HTML standard that has

been written according to the stringent rules of XML.