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HTML
Hypertext Markup Language. The language used to write Web pages. Based on SGML and recently rewritten to follow XML guidelines.
pixel
A font height or size that is based on screen pixels or dots.
A single dot on a computer screen.
XHTML
Extensible HTML - HTML 4.0 rewritten to be compliant with XML rules.

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