application.
Contains the entire path of a website address. Example: http://www.cisco.com/jobs.
See Relative URL.
Absolute Link
The entire web address, such as the absolute URL, of a page at another website. See Relative Link, Absolute URL.
Accessibility is a term referring to the level of a web page’s ability to be viewed and used by everyone, specifically focusing on the needs of the disabled. Accessibility takes into consideration those with limited vision, loss of vision, color blindness, deafness, language impairments, alternative browsers, and restricted mobility.
Websites that meet accessibility standards are compatible with accessibility aids, such as speaking tools that enable blind users to access sites with the help of a speech reader or voice input utilities and on-screen keyboards that permit the user to choose from a list of available commands and objects. The WAI is responsible for formulating and publishing guidelines on web accessibility. See WAI, Assistive Technology.
A Microsoft core technology that allows software components to interoperate. See ASP, VBScript.
Audio Interchange File Format. A cross platform digital sound format. See AU, WAV.
The process by which smooth curves and other lines become jagged because the resolution of the graphics device or file is not high enough to represent a smooth curve. See Anti-aliasing.
A transmission or process method using a series of continuous waves. A typical analog device is a clock in which the hands move continuously around the face and thus is capable of indicating every possible time of day. In contrast, a digital clock is capable of representing only a finite number of times (every tenth of a second, for example). Other examples of analog technology are phone transmissions and television broadcasts. See Modem.
The HTML tag that creates a hyperlink: <a>. See Hyperlink.
A type of GIF image that can be animated by combining several images into a single GIF file. See GIF.
A method of smoothing the jagged edges of type or line art on computer screens by adding pixels of intermediate color values. See Aliasing.
A Java program that can be executed within a web page. See Java.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Sometimes called "pure text" files, ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for M is 77. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another. Compare with Unicode.
Advanced Streaming Format. A format for streaming audio and video created by Microsoft and used in its NetShow products. See Streaming.
Active Server Pages. A specification for dynamically created web pages that utilizes ActiveX scripting, usually VBScript or JavaScript. When a browser requests an ASP, the web server generates a page with HTML code and sends it back to the browser. Similar to CGI scripts, ASP pages have the extension .asp instead of .htm or .html. See ActiveX, VBScript, JavaScript, CGI, JSP.
Any item, equipment, or product that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional abilities of individuals with disabilities, such as screen readers and magnifiers. See Accessibility, WAI.
A value in an HTML tag that specifies additional information about how the element should be treated (e.g., height or color). An attribute has the format: src="puppy.gif". See Tag, Element.
A sound file format commonly used on Unix computers. See AIFF, WAV.
A software application used to create documents such as web pages and websites. See WYSIWYG Editors.
In graphic based chat system, a figure that represents a participant. See Chat.
AVI
Audio-Video Interleave. The standard audio/video format for Microsoft Windows.