- W3C -
WorldWideWeb Consortium. A body that publishes the
standards for HTML.
- WAIS -(Wide
Area Information Service) A database service of the
internet allowing structured searching for keyword
combinations.WAIS supplies a measure of how well
documents it finds match your key words in the form of a
"relevance score", with a score of 1000 being a
perfect match.
- WAN -
Wide Area Network - Big Brother to LAN.
- .wav -A
standard form of storing hypermedia audio files, common
in DOS / Windows systems and not as portable as the .au
format.
- Web -Short
for World Wide Web.
- Web address
- The IP address.
- Web browser
-User interface to the Web. Netscape is a
graphical Web browser.
- WebCrawler
-Software that searches the Web (or, more
commonly, a database derived from the Web) for
keywords input by a user.
- Webmaster
-Person at a Web server site who is qualified to
administer all Web resources at that site.
- Web page
-Coherent document that is readable by a Web
browser. A Web page may vary in complexity all the way
from a simple piece of text enclosed by the HTML tags
<PRE>...</PRE>, meaning
"pre-formatted", to a densely coded HTML file
giving the user access to many types of hypermedia.
- Web page code or
HTML - Hyper Text Markup
Language. The coding method used to format documents for
the World Wide Web. Web pages are able to be seen due in
part to HTML codes or tags as they are more commonly
known, these tags are then interpreted by a Web browser
(such as Netscape Navigator) which renders your Web page.
- Web server
-A server computer equipped to offer World Wide
Web access to its clients using HTTP.
- Web site
- The location of a site in the Web.
- Web spider
-A type of keyword search software.
- WebTV - WebTV
is a new way to access the Internet from your TV. You
don't need a computer and there's no software to load.
All you need is a television, a phone line, and a WebTV
Internet terminal, and you're on the Internet. This
technology is yet to gain in popularity.
- wideband
- A medium-capacity communications circuit/path.
It usually implies a speed from 64Kbps to 1.544Mbps.
- winsock -Short
for Windows Sockets: the interface between your Windows
version of any local internet software (including
Netscape) and the Internet, using the TCP/IP protocols.
- WinZIP - Another
program to compress / decompress files.
- wireframe
-Approximate rendering of a 3D object in Virtual
Reality, which is nothing but its main vertices joined up
with straight lines.
- World Wide Web
-Arragement of Internet accessible resources,
including hypertext and hypermedia, addressed by URLs
- World Wide
Web Consortium - See W3C
- wrapping
- Creating artificial and temporary line breaks
in text in order to confine it within the viewing width
actually available.
- WYSIWYG -(What
You See Is What You Get) Used as an adjective to describe
a word processor whose screen display is the same as the
final printed result. Also applied to HTML editors whose
screen display looks like the intended appearance of a
Web page.