The hourglass is shown a program is working on the function that you have selected. It tells you that, even though the screen may not have changed, your request has been recognized and is being processed. Some of the more generally useful FAQs are posted periodically to the newsgroup news.announce.newusers. Read them using the Read Usenet News function. Hotspots are the places in a Web document that are the entry points linking a page to another page via URLs.
Hotspots look different than other words or pictures on a Web page.
They may be a different color, be followed by a bracketed number, or be underlined. Their appearance differs based on the client being used. You click on the hotspot or enter the number of the hotspot to invoke the link. Hypertext is text which points to other text and allows you to jump around in the text without necessarily reading it in a specific order. Hypermedia is a superset of hypertext.