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agent
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From User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) |
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In this document, the term "user agent" is
used in two ways: The software and documentation components that
together, conform to the requirements of this document. This is the
most common use of the term in this document and is the usage in
the checkpoints.Any software that retrieves and renders Web content
for users. This may include Web browsers, media players, plug-ins,
and other programs — including assistive technologies — that help
in retrieving and rendering Web content.User agent default styles
are style property values applied in the absence of any author or
user styles. Some markup languages specify a default rendering for
content in that markup language; others do not. For example, XML
1.0 [XML] does not specify default styles for XML documents. HTML 4
[HTML4] does not specify default styles for HTML documents, but the
CSS 2 [CSS2] specification suggests a sample default style sheet
for HTML 4 based on current practice.
- user
agent
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From Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) |
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A "user agent" is software that retrieves
and renders Web content. User agents include browsers, plug-ins for
a particular media type, and some assistive technologies.
- user
agent
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From Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05)
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Software to access Web content, including
desktop graphical browsers, text browsers, voice browsers, mobile
phones, multimedia players, plug-ins, and some software assistive
technologies used in conjunction with browsers such as screen
readers, screen magnifiers, and voice recognition software.
- user
agent
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From Glossary of Terms
for Device Independence (2005-01-18) |
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Browsers are examples of
user agents, as are web robots that automatically
traverse the web collecting information.
- user
agent
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From The
Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification
(2002-04-16) |
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A program whose purpose is to mediate
interactions with services on behalf of the user under the user's
preferences. A user may have more than one user agent, and agents
need not reside on the user's desktop, but any agent must be
controlled by and act on behalf of only the user. The trust
relationship between a user and his or her agent may be governed by
constraints outside of P3P. For instance, an agent may be trusted
as a part of the user's operating system or Web client, or as a
part of the terms and conditions of an ISP or privacy proxy.
- user
agent
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From Hypertext Transfer
Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (1999-06-15) | Glossary for this
source
The client which initiates a request. These
are often browsers, editors, spiders (web-traversing robots), or
other end user tools.
- user
agent
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From Architecture
of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) |
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One type of Web
agent; a piece of software acting on behalf of a
person.
- user
agent (UA)
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From Glossary
of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) |
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A user agent is any program that interprets
a document written in the document language and applies associated
style sheets according to the terms of this specification. A user
agent may display a document, read it aloud, cause it to be
printed, convert it to another format, etc.
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user agent default styles
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From User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) |
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source
User agent default styles are style
property values applied in the absence of any author or user
styles. Some markup languages specify a default rendering for
content in that markup language; others do not. For example, XML
1.0 [XML] does not specify default styles for XML documents. HTML 4
[HTML4] does not specify default styles for HTML documents, but the
CSS 2 [CSS2] specification suggests a sample default style sheet
for HTML 4 based on current practice.
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user agent profile
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From
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and
Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15)
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Capabilities and preference information
pertaining to the capabilities of the device, the operating and
network environment, and users personal preferences for receiving
content and/or resource.
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user control of every user interface component
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From User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) |
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This document distinguishes user interface
features that are part of the user agent user interface and those
that are part of content. Some checkpoints (e.g., those in
guideline 5) require user control over rendering and behavior that
is driven by content only. This document does not always explicitly
require the same control over features of the user agent user
interface. Nevertheless, this document (see checkpoint 7.3) does
require user agents to follow software usability guidelines. The
UAWG expects such usability guidelines to include requirements for
user control over user interface behavior.Note: It is more
difficult for users to distinguish content from user interface when
both are rendered as sound in one temporal dimension, than it is
when both are rendered visually in two spatial dimensions. Thus,
the UAWG encourages developers of user agents that include audio
output or synthesized speech output to apply the requirements of
this document to both content and user agent components.
- user
experience
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From Glossary of Terms
for Device Independence (2005-01-18) |
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user experience preferences
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From Glossary of Terms
for Device Independence (2005-01-18) |
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user interface, user interface,
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From User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) |
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For the purposes of this document, user
interface includes both: the user agent user interface, i.e., the
controls (e.g., menus, buttons, prompts, and other components for
input and output) and mechanisms (e.g., selection and focus)
provided by the user agent ("out of the box") that are not created
by content.the "content user interface," i.e., the enabled elements
that are part of content, such as form controls, links, and
applets. The document distinguishes them only where required for
clarity. For more information, see the section on requirements for
content, for user agent features, or both. The term "user interface
control" refers to a component of the user agent user interface or
the content user interface, distinguished where necessary.
- user
session
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From Web
Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this
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A delimited set of user clicks across one
or more Web servers.
- user
styles
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From User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) |
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User styles are style property values that
come from user interface settings, user style sheets, or other user
interactions.
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user-defined data elements
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From XSL Transformations (XSLT)
2.0 (2007-01-23) |
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In addition to declarations, the
xsl:stylesheet element may contain any element not from the XSLT
namespace, provided that the expanded-QName of the element has a
non-null namespace URI. Such elements are referred to as
user-defined data elements.
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user-defined function
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From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query
Language (2007-01-23) |
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For a user-defined function, the function
declaration includes an expression called the function body that
defines how the result of the function is computed from its
parameters.