- user agent
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From XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) (2000-01-26) | Glossary for this source
A user agent is a system that processes XHTML documents in accordance with this specification. See User Agent Conformance for more information.
- user agent
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From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source
A program, such as a browser, running on the device that acts
on a user's behalf. Users may use different user agents at
different times.
- user agent
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From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source
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) | Glossary for this source
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) | Glossary for this source
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) | Glossary for this source
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) | Glossary for this source
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) | Glossary for this source
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) | Glossary for this source
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.
- user agent default styles
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From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this 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.
- user agent profile
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From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source
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.
- VRML (Virtual reality modeling language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
An idea for 3D compositional graphics on the Web, proposed by
Dave Raggett as "Virtual Reality Markup Language," and implemented
by Mark Pesce as a variant of Silicon Graphics's "Inventor" format;
later managed by the VRML consortium, now "Web 3D" consortium.
- web agent
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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 page
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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
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
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.
- web page identifier
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
It may need to be entered explicitly by a user.
- XLL (eXtensible linking language)
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From Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing (1998-07-10) | Glossary for this source
Linking support for XML. XLL defines the #anchor syntax component of URIs for XML. A syntax for identifying elements in a document tree (e.g. based on element names that can contain arbitrary characters in XML), as well as for identifying portions of text, is defined. For consistent identification of portions of text, either or both of string identity matching and string indexing are necessary.
- XML (Extensible markup language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A simplified successor to SGML. W3C's generic language for
creating new markup languages. Markup languages (such as HTML) are
used to represent documents with a nested, treelike structure. XML
is a product of W3C and a trademark of MIT.
- XSL (Extensible style sheet language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A style sheet language, like CSS, but also allowing document
transformation.