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- W3C
- Abbreviation for the World Wide Web Consortium, a coalition of
about 400 organizations working together to develop the web to its
full potential. They seem to be chiefly concerned with developing
software that allows perfect communication/translation of all
forms of web browsers. For more information, please go to
http://www.w3.org/.
- Web services
- The term Web services describes a standardized way of
integrating Web-based applications using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and
UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. XML is
used to tag the data, SOAP is used to transfer the data, WSDL is
used for describing the services available and UDDI is used for
listing what services are available. Used primarily as a means for
businesses to communicate with each other and with clients, Web
services allow organizations to communicate data without intimate
knowledge of each other's IT systems behind the firewall. Unlike
traditional client/server models, such as a Web server/Web page
system, Web services do not provide the user with a GUI. Web
services instead share business logic, data and processes through
a programmatic interface across a network. The applications
interface, not the users. Developers can then add the Web service
to a GUI (such as a Web page or an executable program) to offer
specific functionality to users. Web services allow different
applications from different sources to communicate with each other
without time-consuming custom coding, and because all
communication is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one
operating system or programming language. For example, Java can
talk with Perl, Windows applications can talk with UNIX
applications.
- Web site
- A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site
contains a home page, which is the first document users see when
they enter the site. The site might also contain additional
documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an
individual, company or organization.
- Webmaster
- The person responsible for providing the information, content
and programs available at the website. The person that designs the
site and maintains it. Often the person that owns the site.
- World Wide Web
- Long for WWW, a system of Internet servers that support
specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a
script called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links
to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.
This means you can jump from one document to another simply by
clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the
World Wide Web.
- Windows
- Windows is the operating system from Microsoft. The Windows
source code is proprietary. that is, only Microsoft programmers
can see it and work on it. This makes Windows stable and
permanent, but it requires a commitment to Microsoft and the way
technology is defined by them.
- WTG
- E-mail shorthand meaning Way
To Go!
- WWW
- Abbreviation for the World Wide Web, see above.
- WYSIWYG
- Abbreviation for the common phrase "What
You See
Is What
You Get,"
pronounced WIZ-zee-wig. A WYSIWYG application is one that enables
you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the
document is printed. This differs, for example, from word
processors that are incapable of displaying different fonts and
graphics on the display screen even though the formatting codes
have been inserted into the file. WYSIWYG is especially popular
for desktop publishing.
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