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Fast Start

QuickTime's technology that allows a movie on the Web to begin playing before it has finished downloading.

filename

The name of an HTML or animation file as it resides on a disk or server. On some servers and with some old browsers, filenames must conform to the old DOS standard naming convention of 8.3, meaning up to eight characters followed by a dot and three more characters, such as "ABCDEFGH.HTM."