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agent

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

An agent is a program acting on behalf of a person or organization. (This definition is a specialization of the definition in [Web Arch]. It corresponds to the notion of software agent in [Web Arch].)

provider agent

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

An agent that is capable of and empowered to perform the actions associated with a service on behalf of its owner — the provider entity.

requester agent

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A software agent that wishes to interact with a provider agent in order to request that a task be performed on behalf of its owner — the requester entity.

user agent

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

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

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

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

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

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

A client within a device that performs rendering.
Browsers are examples of user agents, as are web robots that automatically traverse the web collecting information.
user agent

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

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

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)

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

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

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.
web agent

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.

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