Web Terms Glossary T - Z
A ∘ B ∘ C ∘ D ∘ E ∘ F ∘ G ∘ H ∘ I ∘ J ∘ K ∘ L ∘ M ∘ N
O ∘ P ∘ R ∘ S ∘ T ∘ U ∘ W ∘ X
- Tags
- Codes in HTML telling the browser to do something.
- TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
- Defines a set of rules to enable computers to communicate over a network, specifying how data should be packaged, addressed, shipped, routed and delivered to the right destination.
- User Agent
- A user agent is a piece of software that interprets Web documents for a user. Examples of user agents are browsers on PCs, cell phones or PDAs, and screen readers.
- Webmaster
- Webmasters code documents for the Web using a mark-up language. Webmasters are often also known as web authors, Web designers or Web developers.
- XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language)
- XHTML is a reformulation of HTML so that it conforms to the rules of XML. This means that XHTML is very similar to HTML, except for slight differences in the markup, but it is now a sub-set of XML.
- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
- XML defines rules to mark-up a document in a way that allows the author to express semantic meaning in the mark-up. XML does not necessarily restrict the author to certain tags (elements) as HTML and XHTML does. So, an author could decide to mark-up a recipe with tags like
<ingredient>,<step>,<oventemperature>, and so on. However, sub-sets of XML have defined certain tags in certain ways. An example of this is XHTML. - XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language)
- A family of recommendations which describes how XML documents should display and facilitates the transformation of XML documents into other formats.