JumpStart to the Web technologies tutorial: = Buzzwords

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Buzzwords

Sometimes you hear some word, but don't know what it means, here is = the list=20 of some of them:=20

ASP - Active Server Pages, for more info look here=20
CA - Certifying Authority. Authority which signs = public=20 key (PK), so some third party can verify, that the PK is really = belongs to=20 whom it claims to belong.=20
CGI - Common Gateway Interface, look here = for more=20 info.=20
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture, = it's=20 distributed object computing infrastructure. More info can be found here=20
DHTML - Dynamic HTML, look here = for more=20 info.=20
DOM - Document Object Model.=20
DTD - Document Type Definition, this is the formal = specification of a markup language, written using SGML=20
HTML - HyperText Markup Language, if you don't = know what=20 this means, you are in the wrong place.=20
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol=20
JavaScript - Scripting language, look here = for more=20 info.=20
Java - Java programming language, look here = for more=20 info.=20
Java applet - Java application, which runs on the = client=20 side (inside the Web browser).=20
JVM (Java VM) - Java Virtual machine.=20
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,=20 client-server protocol for accessing a directory service.=20
NSAPI - Netscape API, API for writing plug-ins for = Netscape browser.=20
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language, a = standard=20 for describing markup languages=20
SSI - Server Side Includes, technology, which = allows to=20 embed the simple server directives in the HTML pages=20
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer, encrypted channel over = which=20 other protocols (like HTTP) can be used securely=20
URL - Universal Resource Locator, the address of = the=20 resource on the Web. Look here = for more=20 info.=20
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier. Basically the = same as=20 URL.=20
VRML - Virtual Reality Markup language=20
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get=20
XML - Extensible Markup Language=20
Cookies - This is a mechanism, which allows to = store some=20 small info in the browser. Look here=20 for more info.

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