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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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