The way you work with the system depends on your user interface. The appearance of each interface is distinct. The interface that appears when you log in does not imply that you do not have access to the other interfaces. The CDE interface is the default interface on many AIX systems. Many web-based user interfaces are presented in the form of web pages that you view with a web browser.
Web pages can contain text, graphical user interface controls, graphics, sound, and animation.
HTML allows the web browser to determine the exact form of presenting information. You can change many characteristics such as layout, text size, color, and font independently of how the information was originally written. You can run it as a local application on an AIX Version 4.3 system or access it remotely from a personal computer through a web browser. CDE and AIXwindows provide interfaces between you and your computer. The graphical window system , which is part of the graphical user interface, organizes graphics output on the display and does basic text and graphics drawing functions.