Have you ever came across the term "Snippet" before? It is by the dictionary defined as a small piece of something, and usually these are information or parts of literatary works or articles. And in the IT world, or in the Internet, these are small programming text or codes.

Snippet coding are re-usable codes and functions differently in a variety of programming platforms. Since it is re-usable, it may be present in different programming modules, and operates uniquely on each one. For example, are loops or replay instructions for countdown clocks on your programming. Imbedding videos and slide shows into your website, is another. These visual and non-visual operations are in the form of snippets that are in the code lines of your programs.

Snippets may be classified to be static, dynamic, and scriptable. As the word static implies, you can just do plain text display. For the dynamic ones, these are your time values or those that run clocks or dates that form part of another applications. And for the scriptables, these are the runnables where we also find some variations of shell commands.

How wonderful isn't it? So when you get across the term snippet - it may not only mean parts of literary works like poems and short stories, but are also a term used in the internet. Let's improve our knowledge of the internet, and explore the possibilities and the usefulness of this world in our daily lives.