- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets: Standard for defining presentation in Web documents. NGLayout supports CSS1 and most of CSS2. Read the documentation for our style system.
- BAM
- The Netscape internal code-name for our code modularization effort. It stands for "Born Again Modularization." It hinges upon XPCOM.
- CCP
- Cut, Copy and Paste (clipboard operations)
- CVS
- The preferred method for obtaining NGLayout source code and staying in synch with the development effort.
- DND
- Drag and drop
- DOM
- Document Object Model - the heart of Dynamic HTML.
- DTD
- Document Type Definition - specifies a set of elements, their relationships and the tag set to mark the document. A good introduction to SGML concepts can be found here.
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language - NGLayout implements HTML 4.0.
- libfont
- Font library
- imglib
- Image library
- JS
- JavaScript
- netlib
- Networking library
- NGLayout
- Next Generation Layout Engine, now known as Gecko
- Raptor
- Former code-name for NGLayout. We were asked to stop using it in public due to trademark problems. So don't use it :-)
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework
- UI
- User Interface
- Widget
- Widgets are buttons, drop-downs, input fields, etc. Needed for form elements.
- WIP
- Work in Progress
- XIF
- XML Interchange Format - used internally by NGLayout for all I/O to clipboard, etc.
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language
- XPCOM
- Cross Platform Component Object Model
Original Document Information
- Author(s): Eric Krock,
- Other Contributors: Angus Davis
- Last Updated Date: November 19, 2006
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