Articles tagged: Glossary

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Glossary Web technologies contain long lists of jargon and abbreviations that are used in documentation ...
Glossary/404 A 404 is a Standard Response Code meaning that the server cannot find the requested resource.
Glossary/502 An HTTP error code meaning "Bad Gateway".
Glossary/Abstraction Abstraction in computer programming is a way to reduce complexity and allow efficient design and ...
Glossary/Accessibility Web Accessibility (A11Y) refers to best practices for keeping a website usable despite physical ...
Glossary/Adobe_Flash Flash is an obsolescent technology developed by Adobe that makes possible rich Web apps, vector ...
Glossary/AJAX AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is a programming practice of combining HTML, CSS, ...
Glossary/Algorithm An algorithm is a self-contained series of instructions that perform a function.
Glossary/API An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of features and rules that exist inside a ...
Glossary/Apple_Safari Safari is a Web browser developed by Apple and bundled with both Mac OS X and iOS. It's based on ...
Glossary/application_context An application context is a top-level browsing context that has a manifest applied to it.
Glossary/Argument An argument is a value (primitive or object) passed as input to a function.
Glossary/ARIA ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a W3C specification for adding semantics and ...
Glossary/ARPA .arpa (address and routing parameter area) is a top-level domain used for Internet ...
Glossary/Arpanet The ARPAnet (advanced research projects agency network) was an early computer network, ...
Glossary/array An array is an ordered collection of data (either primitive or object depending upon the ...
Glossary/ASCII ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is one of the most popular coding ...
Glossary/Asynchronous Asynchronous refers to a communication environment (like email) where each party receives and ...
Glossary/ATAG ATAG (Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines) is a W3C recommendation for building ...
Glossary/Attribute An attribute extends a tag, changing tag behavior or providing metadata. An attribute always has ...
Glossary/Bandwidth Bandwidth is the measure of how much information can pass through a data connection in a given ...
Glossary/BiDi BiDi (BiDirectional) refers to a document containing both right-to-left and left-to-right text. ...
Glossary/Blink Blink is an open-source browser layout engine developed by Google as part of Chromium (and ...
Glossary/Block The term block can have several meanings depending on the context. It may refer to:
Glossary/Block/CSS A block on a webpage is an HTML element that appears on a new line, i.e. underneath the ...
Glossary/Block/Scripting In JavaScript, a block is a collection of related statements enclosed in braces ("{}"). For ...
Glossary/Boolean In computer science, a boolean is a logical data type that can have only the values true or ...
Glossary/Boot2Gecko Boot2Gecko (B2G) is the engineering codename for Firefox OS and refers to builds that haven't ...
Glossary/bounding_box The bounding box of an element is the smallest possible rectangle (aligned with the axes of that ...
Glossary/Browser A Web browser is a program that retrieves and displays pages from the Web, and lets users access ...
Glossary/Browsing_context A browsing context is the environment in which a browser displays a Document (normally a tab ...
Glossary/cacheable A cacheable response is an HTTP response that can be cached, that is stored to be retrieved and ...
Glossary/CalDAV CalDAV (Calendaring extensions to WebDAV) is a protocol standardized by the IETF and used ...
Glossary/Call_stack A call stack is a mechanism for an interpreter (like the JavaScript interpreter in a web ...
Glossary/Canvas The HTML canvas element provides an empty graphic zone on which specific JavaScript APIs can ...
Glossary/CardDAV CardDAV (vCard Extension to WebDAV) is a protocol standardized by the IETF and used to ...
Glossary/Card_sorting Card sorting is a simple technique used in Information architecture whereby people involved in ...
Glossary/CDN A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a group of servers spread out over many locations. These ...
Glossary/Certificate_authority A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that signs digital certificates and their ...
Glossary/Certified Certified means that an application, content or data transmission has successfully undergone ...
Glossary/Character A character is either a symbol (letters, numbers, punctuation) or non-printing "control" (e.g., ...
Glossary/character_encoding Character encoding provides an encoding system for specific characters in different languages, ...
Glossary/Chrome In a browser, the chrome is any visible aspect of a browser aside from the webpages themselves ...
Glossary/CIA CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) (also called the CIA triad or AIC triad) is a ...
Glossary/Cipher In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm that can encode cleartext to make it unreadable, and ...
Glossary/Ciphertext In cryptography, a ciphertext is a scrambled message that conveys information but is not legible ...
Glossary/Cipher_suite A cipher suite is a combination of a key exchange algorithm, authentication method, bulk ...
Glossary/Class In object-oriented programming, a class defines an object's characteristics. Class is a template ...
Glossary/Closure The binding which defines the scope of execution. In JavaScript, functions create a closure context.
Glossary/CMS A CMS (Content Management System) is software that allows users to publish, organize, change, or ...
Glossary/Codec A codec (a derivative from " co der- dec oder") is a computer program that encodes or decodes a ...
Glossary/Compile Compiling is the process of transforming a computer program in a given programming language into ...
Glossary/Compile_time The compile time is the time from when the program is first loaded until the program is parsed.
Glossary/Conditional A condition is a set of rules that can interrupt normal code execution or change it, depending ...
Glossary/Constant A constant is a value that the programmer cannot change, for example numbers (1, 2, 42). With ...
Glossary/Constructor A constructor belongs to a particular class object that is instantiated. The constructor ...
Glossary/Control_flow The control flow is the order in which the computer executes statements in a script.
Glossary/Cookie A cookie is a small piece of information left by a website on a visitor's computer by a website, ...
Glossary/Copyleft Copyleft is a term, usually referring to a license, used to indicate that such license requires ...
Glossary/CORS CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a system, consisting of transmitting HTTP headers, ...
Glossary/Crawler A web crawler is a program, often called a bot or robot, which systematically browses the Web to ...
Glossary/CRLF CR and LF are control characters or bytecode that can be used to mark a line break in a text file.
Glossary/Cross-site_scripting Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a security exploit which allows an attacker to inject into a ...
Glossary/CRUD CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) is an acronym for ways one can operate on stored data. It is ...
Glossary/Cryptanalysis Cryptanalysis is the branch of cryptography that studies how to break codes and cryptosystems. ...
Glossary/Cryptographic_hash_function A cryptographic hash function is a cryptographic primitive transforming a message of arbitrary ...
Glossary/Cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology, is the science that studies how to encode and transmit messages ...
Glossary/CSP A CSP (Content Security Policy) is used to detect and mitigate certain types of website related ...
Glossary/CSRF CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) is an attack that impersonates a trusted user and sends a ...
Glossary/CSS CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a declarative language that controls how webpages look in the ...
Glossary/CSS_Selector A CSS selector is the part of the CSS rule that lets you target which element(s) get styled by ...
Glossary/Data_structure Data structure is a particular way of organizing data so that it can be used efficiently
Glossary/Decryption In cryptography, decryption is the conversion of ciphertext into cleartext.
Glossary/Denial_of_Service DOS (Denial of service) is an attack on computers or networks that restricts or prevents ...
Glossary/DHTML DHTM L (Dynamic HTML) refers to the code behind interactive webpages that need no plugins like ...
Glossary/Digest A digest is a small value generated by a hash function from a whole message. Ideally, a digest ...
Glossary/Digital_certificate A digital certificate is a data file that binds a publicly known cryptographic key to an ...
Glossary/Distributed_Denial_of_Service A Distributed Denial-of-Dervice (DDoS) is an attack in which many compromised systems are made ...
Glossary/DNS DNS (Domain Name System) translates easy-to-recall domain names to the numerical IP addresses ...
Glossary/Doctype !DOCTYPE informs the browser which version of HTML (or XML) you used to write the document. ...
Glossary/document_environment When the JavaScript global environment is a window or an iframe, it is called a document ...
Glossary/DOM The DOM (Document Object Model) is an API that represents and interacts with any HTML or XML ...
Glossary/Domain_name A domain name is a website's address on the Internet. Domain names are used in URLs to identify ...
Glossary/Dominator In graph theory, node A dominates node B if every path from the root node to B passes through A.
Glossary/DOS_attack DoS (Denial of Service) is a network attack that prevents legitimate use of server resources by ...
Glossary/DTD !DOCTYPE informs the browser which version of HTML (or XML) you used to write the document. ...
Glossary/Dynamic_programming_language A dynamic programming language is a programming language in which operations otherwise done at ...
Glossary/Dynamic_typing Dynamically-typed languages are those (like JavaScript) where the interpreter assigns variables ...
Glossary/ECMA Ecma International (formally European Computer Manufacturers Association) is a non-profit ...
Glossary/ECMAScript ECMAScript is the scripting language on which JavaScript is based. Ecma International is in ...
Glossary/Element An element is a part of a webpage. In XML and HTML, an element may contain a data item or a ...
Glossary/Empty_element An empty element is an element from HTML, SVG, or MathML that cannot have any child nodes ...
Glossary/Encapsulation Encapsulation is the packing of data and functions into one component (for example, a class) and ...
Glossary/Encryption In cryptography, encryption is the conversion of cleartext into a coded text or ciphertext. A ...
Glossary/Endianness "Endian" and "endianness" (or "byte-order") describe how computers organize the bytes that make ...
Glossary/Engine The JavaScript engine is an interpreter that parses and executes a JavaScript program.
Glossary/Entity An HTML entity is a string that begins with ' &' and ends with ' ;'. Entities can be used to ...
Glossary/Entity_header An entity header is an HTTP header describing the content of the body of the message. Entity ...
Glossary/event Events are things generated by DOM elements and can be handled by a Javascript code.
Glossary/Exception An exception is a condition that interrupts normal code execution. In JavaScript syntax errors ...