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namespace-well-formed
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From Namespaces in XML 1.1 (2004-02-04)
| Glossary
for this source
A document is namespace-well-formed if it
conforms to this specification.
- natural
language
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From User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) |
Glossary for this
source
Natural language is spoken, written, or
signed human language such as French, Japanese, and American Sign
Language. On the Web, the natural language of content may be
specified by markup or HTTP headers. Some examples include the lang
attribute in HTML 4 ([HTML4] section 8.1), the xml:lang attribute
in XML 1.0 ([XML], section 2.12), the hreflang attribute for links
in HTML 4 ([HTML4], section 12.1.5), the HTTP Content-Language
header ([RFC2616], section 14.12) and the Accept-Language request
header ([RFC2616], section 14.4). See also the definition of
script.
- natural
language
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From Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05)
| Glossary for
this source
Spoken, written, or signed human languages
such as French, Japanese, American Sign Language, and braille. The
natural language of content may be indicated with the "lang"
attribute in HTML ([HTML40], section 8.1) and the "xml:lang"
attribute in XML ([XML], section 2.12).
- navigation
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From Glossary of Terms
for Device Independence (2005-01-18) |
Glossary for
this source
One common form of this
kind of mechanism is the link, a region within an
active perceivable unit which can be activated by
a suitable user action.
- navigation
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From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this
source
The process of moving from one
node to another through the
hypertext
web . This is normally done by following
links . Various features of a
particular
browser
may make this easier. These include keeping a history of where the
user has been, and drawing diagrams of links between nearby nodes.
(More...)
- navigation
bars
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From Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05)
| Glossary for
this source
A navigation bar is a collection of links
to the most important parts of a document or site.
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navigation mechanism
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From Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05)
| Glossary for
this source
A navigation mechanism is any means by
which a user can navigate a page or site. Some typical mechanisms
include:navigation barsA navigation bar is a collection of links to
the most important parts of a document or site.site mapsA site map
provides a global view of the organization of a page or site.tables
of contentsA table of contents generally lists (and links to) the
most important sections of a document.
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NCSA (National center for supercomputing applications)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web"
(1999-07-23)
| Glossary for
this source
A center at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign whose software development group created
Mosaic .
- negotiate
content
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From
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and
Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15)
| Glossary for
this source
Message content that has been selected by
content negotiation.
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negotiation metadata
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From
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and
Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15)
| Glossary for
this source
Information which is exchanged between the
sender and the receiver of a message by content negotiation in
order to determine the variant which should be transferred.
- nelson,
ted
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web"
(1999-07-23)
| Glossary for
this source
Coiner of the word hypertext; guru and
visionary. By coincidence, Ted is currently (1999) at
Keio University
- net
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web"
(1999-07-23)
| Glossary for
this source
-
network byte order
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From Portable
Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) |
Glossary for this
source
byte order in which the
most significant byte comes first, then the less significant bytes
in descending order of significance (
MSB LSB for two-byte
integers,
MSB B2 B1
LSB for four-byte
integers).
- new
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From XML Linking Language
(XLink) (2001-06-27) |
Glossary for this
source
An application traversing to the ending
resource should load it in a new window, frame, pane, or other
relevant presentation context. This is similar to the effect
achieved by the following HTML fragment:<A
HREF="http://www.example.org"
target="_blank">...</A>
- neXT
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web"
(1999-07-23)
| Glossary for
this source
Name of the company started by Steve Jobs,
and of the computer it manufactured, that integrated many novelties
such as the Mach kernel, Unix, NeXTStep, Objective-C, drag-and-drop
application builders, optical disks, and digital signal processors.
The development platform I used for the first Web client.
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NNTP (Network news transfer protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web"
(1999-07-23)
| Glossary for
this source
A protocol that defines how news articles
are passed around between computers. Each computer passes an
article to any of its neighbors that have not yet got it.
- node
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web"
(1999-07-23)
| Glossary for
this source
Thing joined by links. In the Web, a node
is a Web page, any resource with a URI.
- node
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From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query
Language (2007-01-23) |
Glossary for this
source
A node is an instance of one of the node
kinds defined in .
- node
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From XML Path Language (XPath)
2.0 (2007-01-23) |
Glossary for this
source
A node is an instance of one of the node
kinds defined in .
- node
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From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this
source
A unit of information. Also known as a
frame (KMS), card (Hypercard, Notecards). Used with this special
meaning in hypertext circles: do not confuse with "node" meaning
"network host". For user's benefits, we use the term "
document " as this is the
nearest term outside the hypertext world.