1What is online journalism? - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY

152 Journalism Online
‘My web browser must be connected live to the Internet to
read HTML.’
This is wrong, your web browser software will read your newly
written pages without any connection, but it will have to go online
to download new pages from the Internet.
‘My web browser will only read HTML.’
This is wrong, your browser will in fact read straight text
documents, should you ever want it to.
From the above, we can define the following important
principles.
1 HTML can be written on a text editor.
2 It becomes HTML when you include certain codes or tags
within the text, together with the message itself. The text editor
will make no sense of these, presenting them literally as the
series of symbols and letters that you typed in.
3 But when your text is looked at by a web browser, it reads the
tags and responds accordingly, turning your text into a web
page.
4 You can also use tags to give the browser messages about
layout, headings, etc.
5 This message can be understood by other people’s browsers
(although different types of browser have different settings). So
your message can be read by millions of others.
6 If you put the right tags in your message, you can link your
message to someone else’s message on another web page or
site. Hence the hypertext link.
What does a tag look like?
Let us look at that most profound of sentences:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.