Head First HTML with CSS

Now let’s take a look behind the scenes and step through how the
browser retrieves and displays this page when it is requested from
http://lounge.headfirstlabs.com:
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First the browser retrieves the file “elixir.html” from the server.
Empty browser window, nothing retrieved yet.
Browser
Browser
“I need the HTML f
le ‘elixir.html’”
“ Found it, here ya go”
adding images to your web pages
Web Server
Next the browser reads the “elixir.html” file, displays it, and sees it
has four images to retrieve. So, it needs to get each one from the Web
server, starting with “green.jpg”.
The HTML page is retrieved, but the browser
still needs to get the images.
“Oh, it looks like I need green.jpg, too”
“ Found it, here ya go”
Web Server
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