HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
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://wickedlysmart.com/lounge/
:
Behind
the Scenes
First, the browser retrieves the file “elixir.html” from the server.
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Em
pty browser win
dow; nothing retr
ieved yet.
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Web Server
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Browser
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”.
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The HTML p
age is retrieved,
but the browser
still needs to
get the images.
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Web Server
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go
Browser
