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W3C

From Glossary of W3C Jargon (2003-03-11) | Glossary for this source

n. The World Wide Web Consortium: An unincorporated entity created by contracts between the Hosts for the purpose of bringing the Web to its full potential.
W3C (World wide web consortium)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A neutral meeting of those to whom the Web is important, with the mission of leading the Web to its full potential.
  • The World Wide Web Consortium
W3C recommendation

From W3C QA - Quality Assurance glossary (2003-09-06) | Glossary for this source

A standard agreed upon by the Web industry and community represented in W3C.
W3C Recommendation (REC)

From World Wide Web Consortium Process Document (2003-06-18) | Glossary for this source

A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of guidelines that, after extensive consensus-building, has received the endorsement of W3C Members and the Director. W3C recommends the wide deployment of its Recommendations. Note: W3C Recommendations are similar to the standards published by other organizations.
WAI (Web accessibility initiative)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A domain of W3C that attempts to ensure the use of the Web by anyone regardless of disability.
WAIS (Wide area information servers)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines, but without hypertext.
warnings

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

In addition to static errors, dynamic errors, and type errors, an XQuery implementation may raise warnings, either during the static analysis phase or the dynamic evaluation phase. The circumstances in which warnings are raised, and the ways in which warnings are handled, are implementation-defined.
warnings

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

In addition to static errors, dynamic errors, and type errors, an XPath implementation may raise warnings, either during the static analysis phase or the dynamic evaluation phase. The circumstances in which warnings are raised, and the ways in which warnings are handled, are implementation-defined.
web

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Short for World Wide Web .
web

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

A set of nodes interconnected by links . Often, the set of all the nodes which are interconnected. See also Topology .
web

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

Shortened form of World Wide Web.
web agent

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

A person or a piece of software acting on the information space on behalf of a person, entity, or process.
web client

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A client that is capable of accessing Web resources by issuing requests and render responses containing Web resource manifestations.
web collection

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A portion or section of a Web site , consisting of two or more Web pages, that represents a non-trivial, self-contained resource, but is still maintained by the same publisher of the overall Web site .
web core

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The collection of resources residing on the Internet that can be accessed using any implemented version of HTTP as part of the protocol stack (or its equivalent), either directly or via an intermediary.

Notes: By the term "or its equivalent" we consider any version of HTTP that is currently implemented as well as any new standards which may replace HTTP (HTTP-NG, for example). Also, we include any protocol stack including HTTP at any level, for example HTTP running over SSL.

web neighborhood

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The collection of resources directly linked from a Web resource.

web neighborhood

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A resource, identified by a URI, that is a member of the Web Neighborhood .
web page

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A collection of information, consisting of one or more Web resources, intended to be rendered simultaneously, and identified by a single URI. More specifically, a Web page consists of a Web resource with zero, one, or more embedded Web resources intended to be rendered as a single unit, and referred to by the URI of the one Web resource which is not embedded.

Note: The components of a Web page can reside at different network locations. The location of the Web page, however, is determined by the URI identifying the page.

Note: The scope of a Web page is limited to the collection of Web resources which are displayed simultaneously by requesting the Web page's URI. The components of a Web page actually rendered in a page view is client-dependent.

web page

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

A collection of information, consisting of one or more resources, intended to be rendered simultaneously, and identified by a single Uniform Resource Identifier.
More specifically, a web page consists of a resource with zero, one, or more embedded resources intended to be rendered as a single unit, and referred to by the URI of the one resource which is not embedded.
This term was developed from the definition of web page in Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet.
web page identifier

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

A Uniform Resource Identifier intended to be recognized by a user as representing the identity of a specific Web Page (resource).
It may need to be entered explicitly by a user.

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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