Transcription: In this animation, we'll look at the differences between static and active web pages. Let's first examine static web pages. A static web page is pre-built by a web author and placed on an Internet server. It's made up of text, graphics, sound, and animation, but it has no elements for interaction other than hyperlinks. When a client asks the server for a web page, the server retrieves a copy of the HTML and returns it to the client. The web user may read the page and ask for new pages by selecting hyperlinks, but can't interact with the page any further. Active web pages are more powerful than ...