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E. Short answer type questions.

            a. HTML is a markup language which uses a predefined set of tags to define the characteristics of a web document.

             The main characteristics of this language are:

● Easy to understand and modify.

● More flexible.

● Allows using Graphic, videos, sounds, etc.

● Platform independent language.

● Can be used simply a text editor for coding.

b.   Head section of the HTML document contains information about the document such as its description, index, the name of the program used to create the document. Whereas the Body section contains information that is displayed on the web page when opened in a web browser.

c.   HTML tags which have both a starting and a closing tag i.e., they appear in a pair are called container tags. These tags wrap around the text in the document to be formatted.

     Empty tags have only starting tag but no closing tag. These tags are single line tags and they do not enclose any contents in it. e.g.< br > tag

e. Commonly used web browsers such as:

                   Windows Internet Explorer: Supports the HTML 5 video and audio tags along with the Web Open Font Format.

                   Google Chrome: Developed by Google Inc with the features mainly aimed to improve security, speed and stability.

                  Mozilla Firefox: Free and open source web application with features like tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, download manager and private browsing.

                     Apple Safari: Developed by Apple Inc. With all the latest features available for both Windows and MAC OS.

                  Opera: Its features include tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures and the integrated download manager.