Web Glossary - A
- Access Privileges
- The privilege to access and make changes to files and folders.
Related Terms: Authentication, Security
- Address
- See URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- Address Bar
- The Microsoft Internet Explorer toolbar component, in which you type web site addresses or URLs.
Related Terms: Browser, URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- Aggregator
- A program which enables users to read the content of blogs and web sites using RSS feeds.
Related Terms: RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary)
- AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
- A web development/DOM scripting technique for creating interactive web applications. AJAX uses Javascript and XML to silently load data from the server without refreshing the web page.
Related Terms: JavaScript, Refresh, Web 2.0, Web Page, XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
- Anonymous FTP
- A way to use the FTP program to log on to another computer so that you can copy files when you don't have an account on the other computer. When you log on, type anonymous as the user name and your address as the password. This gives you access to publicly-available files.
Related Terms: Authentication, FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Apache
- An open source HTTP web server software.
Related Terms: HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), IIS (Internet Information Services), MySQL, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), Server
- Applet
- A small Java™ program that can be embedded in an HTML page. Applets differ from full-fledged Java™ applications in that they are not allowed to access certain resources on your local computer, such as files and serial devices, and are restricted to accessing a limited set of other computers networked resources.
Related Terms: Java™
- ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
- This is the de facto worldwide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 8 digit binary number (byte): 00000000 through 01111111.
Related Terms: Binary, Bit (Binary DigIT), Byte
- ASP (Active Server Pages)
- Microsoft's proprietary server-side scripting language used to create dynamic web pages.
Related Terms: IIS (Internet Information Services), Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)
- Audio File
- A file that contains audio data. Common audio file formats include:
- .mp3 MPEG-1 (or MPEG-2) Audio Layer 3
- .wav Windows Waveform Audio format
- .aiff Apple Audio Interchange File Format
- .ogg Ogg Vorbis open source audio format
- .aac Advanced Audio Coder (formally MPEG-2 AAC)
- .flac Free Lossless Audio Format
- .ra RealAudio format
Related Terms: Image File, QuickTime, Video File
- Authentication
- Verifying the identity of a person or computer process.
Related Terms: Access Privileges, Anonymous FTP, Login or Logon, Security