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Glossary of terms

HTTP
HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language descendant from SGML
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets, formatting for web pages
JavaScript
Also called ECMAScript, Client-Side language used in web pages
Client-Side
Everything that happens in the browser
Server-Side
Everything that happens on the server (includes web-server, application-server, database-server, etc.)
Version Control
Software that automatically saves all versions as something is modified
FTP
rsync
WebDav
SSH
web-server
Content Management System (CMS)
AJAX
Tables
An HTML technology intended for tabular data but commonly also used for layout, use CSS instead.
Frames
An HTML technology that splits pages, use CSS instead.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get, the editor looks like the final result.
DOM

Document Object Model, the way the page looks to JavaScript when it is loaded in the browser.

VNC

globalspirits: WebGlossary (last edited 2010-05-13 02:16:25 by TomOehser)