Term and Definitions
Active Content
The web is filled with creative and useful active elements but it can sometimes
be hard to tell what is an active object and what isn't. This is especially
true of Video content. Often what appears to be a simple video is in fact a direct
reference to an application running on a server connected to the web. Interacting
with the application gives the application access to information contained within
your browser. In most cases the application's sole purpose is to display a video
stream within the Frame container, caution should be exercised in interacting
with such web content.
Direct Image Link
This is a direct URL reference to an image file. When a direct image link is used
in Internet Explorer the image will be displayed in the browser window. This display
is not to be confused with an Image Page as the only content displayed or accessed
is the image information.
FHG
Abbreviation for Free Hosted Gallery. FHGs is the pural - Free Hosted Galleries.
Flash Video File
This term is used to describe a type of Image Surfer Pro file segment. These segments
are used to store information about video files which can be played by the
embedded Image Surfer Pro Flash Video Player when properly encoded in on a webpage.
These segments are considered Videos and are meant to reference files which
would typically have the .flv file extension.
Frame
An embedded object within a webpage which contains Active Content which may
or may no be from the same web location as the rest of the webpage. Such Frames
may be encoded in several different tags including IFrame, Object, and Embed
constructs. Image Surfer Pro encodes both Frame and Page segments in IFrame tags.
Sites which typically charge a fee to access their image content often provide lower resolution samples of the images to help market their content. Often these sample images will be orgainzed or grouped into sets of related images. Marketing pages are then created with a set of thumbnail images which link to the sample images. These marketing pages are often referred to as Free Hosted Galleries since they in essence form a gallery of images which are hosted on the publisher's servers and provided for free.
Fusk / Fusker / Fusking
In the context of Image Surfer Pro these terms are used to describe references to
multiple images. The fusk describes how the references to multiple images is
represented (e.g. a numerical fusk). The Fusker is the person creating or collecting
the image references, and Fusking is the act of creating an image fusk.
Fusker Collection
A Fusker Collection is a collection of image fusks. Essentially a collection of
image references which can be recognized by Image Surfer Pro to allow you (the
Fusker) to view the images within Internet Explorer.
HTML5
HTML is the language of the web. It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. The
language allows web designers to not only present the textual content you see on
the web but also performs the roles of typesetting, page layout, and content
delivery. The latest edition of the language is HTML5 which has become the standard
for web designers because of the flexibility in dealing with different browsing
devices and screen sizes.
HTML Tag
Tags within the HTML tell the browser how to interpret the content of the page. For
example the img tag tells the browswer to interpret the src attribute
of the tag as the URL of an image file and to display the data from that file as an
image.
IE
Abbreviation for Internet Explorer.
Image Gallery
A webpage which has as it's primary content links to a set of related images. The
links may be a list of text entries or more commonly a set of thumbnails of the
images linke to. This includes webages typically refered to as a Free Hosted Gallery.
The links of the gallery may take you directly to the image files or to an image
page.
Image Page
A webpage which has as it's primary content a large image. Other content on the
page may include advertizement, related links, textual description of the image
or artist or group of images. An image page is however not a direct image - it is
HTML which contains an embedded image.
Image Surfer Pro Flash Video Player
The Image Surfer Pro Flash Video Player is a shockwave flash file installed on
your computer when Image Surfer Pro is installed. It is used to display Flash
Video on ISP Visualization pages. The player is not a windows executable file
and can only be used as an embedded media player on webpages.
ISP
Abbreviation for Image Surfer Pro.
ISP Gallery Page
Using either the
button or the
Visualize tree menu option, you can create
an Image Surfer Pro Expanded visualization. The Expanded Visualization is a set of linked
Gallery webpages which display all of the media file references below the currently selected segment
in the fusker collection.
ISP Form
An ISP Form is a webpage created by Image Surfer Pro by use of the
button. The page consists of four tables: Video Table, Frame Table, Image Table, Links Table.
The button takes the media content and hyper-links from the currently displayed webpage, creates
the tables, and then navigates IE to the ISP Form. The form has numerous Select Boxes
which the user can use to select what media to add to the fusker collection and what hyper-links
to search for additional media content.
ISP Guide Page
Using either the
button or the
Visualize tree menu option, you can create
a Guided Visualization. The guided Visualization is a set of lnked guide and gallery pages. The
currently selected segment in the fusker tree is used to determine the number of galleries (branches
through the tree). Linked guide pages are created displaying the First media reference for
each gallery. Each media reference on a guide page is encoded as a hyper-link to an ISP Detail Page
for the gallery it represents.
ISP Visualization Page
Image Surfer Pro generates webpages. The webpages are stored in temporary directories
on your local computer hard drive. Each IE tab where Image Surfer Pro is active has
one of these temporary directories and the directory is deleted when the IE tab is
closed. Image Surfer Pro visualization pages include ISP Forms, Guide Pages, and Gallery
Pages.
Segment
The fusker collection is made up of segments. Each segment in the fusker collection represents
a portion of a URL reference. Each URL includes a Protocol segment, a Domain
segment, Directory Structure segments, and usually a File segment.
Shockwave Flash File
This term is used to describe a type of Image Surfer Pro file segment. These segments
are used to store information about media files which can be displayed by the creation
of a Shockwave Flash object by IE. IE creates the active object based on the currently
installed Shockwave Flash addon, then provides the object code by downloading
the associated segment. These segments are considered Frames and would typically
be associated with files with the .swf extension.
Thumbnail Image
Sometimes simply called a thumbnail, these are small low resloution images embedded
on webpages. The images are typically 250 by 250 pixels or less in size. In some
cases larger images may appear as thumbnails if their size is constrained by the
webpage displaying them. They are often used to preview images of larger size and
will link do the image itself or webpages related to the image.
Thumbnail Post
Refers to a specific type of
webpage. These pages may look very similar to a Free Hosted Gallery. Thumbnail
Images on these pages link to Free Hosted Galleries instead of Direct Image Links
or Image Pages. Thumbnail posts will often link to FHGs from several publishers.
URL
Abbreviation for Universal Resource Locator - it is essentially the address of a
file or data stream on the Internet. It is what you type into the address bar of
Internet Explorer or what appears in the address bar of Internet Explorer when
you click on a link within the browser window.
Video Tag
Introduced in HTML5, the video tag tells your browser to interpret the
source URL as a video stream. Currently IE supports only MP4 files as the source
in video tags. The addition of this tag in HTML5 removes much of the complexity in
how video files had been embedded in webpages. However, it did not remove support
for the previous mechanisms and much of the web still uses Active Objects
and Frames to display video.
Windows Media File
This term is used to describe a type of Image Surfer Pro file segment. These segments
are used to store information about media files which can be played by the
embedded Windows Media Player when properly encoded in on a webpage. These segments
are considered Videos and are meant to reference files which would typically have
one of the following file extensions: .wmv .mov .mpg .mpeg .avi .asf.