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Why would I want to use HTML pages in my mediascapes?
HTML pages provide a simple method of presenting information on the screen. If you wanted to show the user some text or numbers you could build an image with this information in and show it to the user at the appropriate time. Presenting information as HTML pages takes up less file space than images and there are some situations where images would not be able to be used, for example information that changes during the course of the mediascape. The key times you would want to use HTML pages are:
- Dynamic information: Using HTML pages allows you to show the user information that is changing; things like their score in a game.
- Repetitive information: You can also use HTML pages as templates, if you have a hundred pages of fixed information you could produce a hundred images to load into the mediascape or you could define one HTML page that you use and fill with the appropriate content a hundred times.
- Getting user interaction: As well as showing the user information, an HTML page can also be used to interact with the user and feed the results of this interaction back into the mediascape.
