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| The precursor to the Internet, a WAN which started with two network nodes located at UCLA and Stanford connected by a single phone line. |
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The character set representing the alphabet of English characters.
Stands for: American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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| A mark up tag that controls the use, behavior and in some cases the appearance of an element in an HTML document. |
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| An element that contains content that is viewed as a distinct block within a Web page; when rendered visually, block-level elements start on a new line in the document. |
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| The element that contains all of the content that appears on a Web page. |
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| The process by which browsers associate a symbol with a number, and vice versa |
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| Character Entity Reference |
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| A way to insert a special symbol, in which a short, memorable name is used in place of a numeric character reference. |
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| Character Formatting Element |
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| An element used to format characters and words |
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| A collection of characters and symbols; for English, about 127 characters are needed to represent all of the upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, spaces and special typing symbols in the English language. |
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| A computer or other device that requests service from a server |
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| One of the most commonly used designs for a network, in which several clients access information provided by one or more servers. |
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| A tag that indicates the end of a two-sided tag |
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A tag that allows you to insert a comment in your HTML code; such notes often contain the author's name and the date the document was created.
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A type of list that contains a list of terms, each followed by the term's description
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| Refers to a feature of HTML or XHTML that is being phased out by the W3C and which might not be supported by future browsers. |
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| A distinct object in a Web document, like a paragraph, a heading or the page's title. |
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An element that contains no content; empty elements appear in coda as a one-sided tag
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| Extensible Markup Language |
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A language for creating markup language, like SGML, but without SGML's complexity and overhead |
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| The top level of a domain name, indicating the general audience supported by the Web server; for example, .edu is the extension reserved for educational institutions. |
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| A node on a network that provides storage space for saving and retrieving files. |
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| One of the two main sections of a Web document; contains information about the document (such as the document;s title or a list of keywords) that aids a search engine on the Web in identifying the document for other users. |
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| An element that contains the text of main headings on a Web page.
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| a computer through which users access a network; also called a node. |
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| Hypertext Markup Language. A language used to mark the elements of a document to create a web page. |
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| A working draft of the next version of HTML; it provides greater support for emerging online technology while still providing support for older browsers |
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| A program that translates text written in another language into HTML code. |
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| A program that helps you create an HTML file by inserting HTML code for you as your work. |
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| A method of organization in which information is not presented linearly, bu in what ever order is requested by the user |
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| Hypertext Markup Language |
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| A language used to mark the elements of a document to create a Web page |
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| An element that marks a section of text within a block level element; inline elements do not start out on a new line of block, but instead flow "in-line" with the rest of the characters in the block. |
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| A graphic file that is loaded as a browser renders a web page. |
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| Internet Service Provider |
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| A company that provides Internet access. |
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| An extended character set of 255 characters that can e used by most languages that employ the Latin alphabet, including English, French, Spanish, and Italian; also called Latin 1. |
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| Internet Service Provider |
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| An extended character set of 255 characters that can e used by most languages that employ the Latin alphabet, including English, French, Spanish, and Italian; also called ISO-8859-1 |
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| An element in a hypertext document that allows you jump from one topic or document to another, usually by clicking it with a mouse button. |
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| A network confined to a small geographic area, such as within a building or department |
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| A language that describes the content and structure of a document. |
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| A structure that links several computers or other devices(called nodes) together, allowing for the sharing of information and services. |
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| A point (such as a computer or a printer) on a network; also called a host. |
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| Numeric Character Reference |
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| A number that represents a character. |
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| A tag used for an empty element; does not have an opening or closing tag. |
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| The tag that indicates the beginning of the content in a two-sided tag. |
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| An HTML list format used to items that must appear in a numeric order. |
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| An element that describes how content should appear but doesn't indicate the content's nature |
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| An attribute that specifically describes how an element should be rendered; almost all presentational attributes are now deprecated in favor or styles. |
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| A network node that provides printing services to the network. |
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| The element that contains all of the elements used in the document; for HTML documents, the root element is marked with the Tag. |
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| A network node that makes information or a service available on the network. |
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| Standard Generalized Markup Language. The first popular markup language; SGML is device and system independent and is used to create other markup languages. |
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| Standard Generalized markup Language |
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| The first popular markup language; SGML is device and system independent and is used to create other markup languages. |
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| A formatting rule written in a separate language from HTML telling the browser how to render an element for particular devices. |
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| The core building block of HTML; Marks the presence of an element. |
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| The earliest kind of browser, limited to displaying only text. |
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| A tag that has an opening and a closing tag to mark the content's beginning and end. |
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| The most extended character set, which can be used for any of the world's languages, supporting up to 65,536 symbols. |
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| An HTML list format in which the items do not need to ocur in any special order. |
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| The most commonly used character set on the Web; a compressed version of Unicode. |
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World Wide Web Consortium.
A group of Web developers, programmers, and authors who set the standard or specifications that all browsers manufacturers follow; The W3C has no enforcement power but because a unifrom language is in everyone's best interest, the recommendations are usually followed, though not always right away |
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Wide Area Network.
A network that covers a wide area, such as several buildings or cities; typically consists of two or more local area networks connected together; the largest WAN is the Internet. |
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| an interface designed to make the resources of the Internet accessible to the general public. |
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| A program that retrieves a Web page from a server and renders the page on a computer or other device. |
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| A computer that stores and makes Web pages available to any device connected to the Internet. |
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| Blank space, tabs, and line breaks within an HTML text file, not displayed by browsers. |
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WAN.
A network that covers a wide area, such as several buildings or cities; typically consists of two or more local area networks connected together; the largest WAN is the Internet. |
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| An interface designed to make the resources of the Internet accessible to the general public. |
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| World Wide Web Consortium |
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| A group of Web developers, programmers, and authors who set the standard or specifications that all browsers manufacturers follow; The W3C has no enforcement power but because a unifrom language is in everyone's best interest, the recommendations are usually followed, though not always right away |
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Extensible Hypertext Markup Language.
One of the markup languages created with XML; designed to confront some of the problems associated with the various competing versions of HTML and to better integrate HTML with other markup languages like XML |
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| A version of XHTML still in the draft stage; it has proved to be controversial because it is not backward compatible with earlier versions of HTML. |
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| A working draft of HTML in the draft stage; it provides greater support for emerging online technology while still providing support for older browsers. |
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Extensible Markup Language.
A language for creating markup languages, like SGML, but without SGML's complexity and overhead. |
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