W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) |
World Wide Web Consortium an independent de facto Internet standards and policy setting organization. Comprised of member organizations and affiliates addressing policy and human rights issues with technology based solutions. Not governed by the International community's established standards body ( ISO). Founded and directed by Tim Berners-Lee for the express, self proclaimed purpose, of ensuring the "Web remained a universal, accessible hypertext medium for sharing information" regardless of all the potential uses of the Internet and how people interact. His position, as quoted in his book Weaving the Web, the Consortium would allow him "to think about what was best for the World", and, he could wield significant political influence to ensure the Web remained the the universal medium. |
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WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) |
Acronym for Wide Area Information Server. Was early type search engine without use of hypertext. |
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WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) |
A protocol used to send data cordlessly, for example using a mobile telephone. |
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Web |
The entire collection of files written in HTML and similar mark-up languages available on the Internet. Clients on the Internet use their browsers to request these files from Web servers and then display them as Web pages. The Web is only a portion of the Internet; other parts include e-mail communication and FTP. |
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Web Host |
A company that rents out space on the Internet to allow you to place web pages on it. |
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Web Page |
A ‘page’ on the World Wide Web. |
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Web Publishing Software |
Software which enables users who are not themselves specialists to generate HTML. Two popular such programs are Adobe PageMill and Microsoft FrontPage. AccountView itself produces an HTML template as part of its eCatalogue module based upon the free product FrontPage Express. Modifications to the template are easy to carry out. |
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Web Site |
A ‘page’ or group of ‘pages’ on the World Wide Web. |
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Web Site Address |
The address for a web site - so you can find it on the Internet with your browser. |
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Web Applicance |
A device similar to a PC but with lower costs which can be used in the home, shopping centers, restaurants, offices, and many other places to provide users with access to the Internet for a variety of purposes. Currently such devices are being dropped from the marketplace due to consumer confusion and limits imposed with the WWW. |
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WhoIs |
A database maintained by Network Solutions, Inc., to help identify site owners, under contract with Internic. An Internet utility that returns information about a domain name or IP address. For example, if you enter a domain name such as MonsterCommerce.com, whois will return the name and address of the domain"s owner. |
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Webmaster |
An individual who manages a web site. Depending on the size of the site, the Webmaster might be responsible for any of the following: Making sure that the web server hardware and software is running properly, designing the web site, creating and updating web pages, replying to user feedback, creating CGI scripts, monitoring traffic through the site. |
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Windows Socket |
Windows Sockets is a standard way for Windows-based programs to work with TCP/IP. You can use WinSock if you use SLIP to connect to the Internet. |
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World Wide Web |
All web-sites on the Internet combined - used also as term for Internet. |
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Worm |
Acronym for Write Once Read Many. A self-contained program that can propagate itself through data processing systems or networks. Worms are often designed to use up available resources such as storage space or processing time. |
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WWW (World Wide Web) |
Acronym for the World Wide Web, a CERN initiative with Tim Berners-Lee the primary originator of the system strategy so that documents on computer could be viewed on another. Had known limitations as far back as 1990 in the use of keywords in seacrhing for documents. An insufficient strategy for today's Internet and more appropriate for local Semantic Web type searching at local and regional geographic resource levels or within a general indexed concept system. Term coined by Tim Berners-Lee to describe his Internet system using HTTP, URI, and client server system for Internet communication and collaboration. |
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WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) |
What You See Is What You Get. An application that displays how the resulting page will look as it is being developed by the user in which the screen displays what the end result will look like, while the document is being created or modified. |
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XML (Extensible Markup Language) |
Short for Extensible Markup Language, a new specification being developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for web documents. It enables designers to create their own customized tags to provide functionality not available with HTML. For example, XML supports links that point to multiple documents, as opposed to HTML links, which can reference just one destination each. |
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Yellow Pages |
In the Internet a directory containing the electronic addresses of businesses organized by product or service. |
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Zero |
In data processing, the number that when added to or subtracted from any other number does not alter the value of that other number. Zero may have different representations in computers such as positively or negatively signed zero and floating-point zero (in which the fixed-point part is zero while the exponent in the floating-point representation may vary). |
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Zero Supression |
Zero Suppression - (1) The removal of non-significant zeros from a numeral. (2) The function that allows the process by which zero numerals are omitted from the printed or displayed result of a calculation. |
