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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.
user control of every user interface component

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

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

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

A set of material rendered by a user agent which may be perceived by a user and with which interaction may be possible.
user experience preferences

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

A set of preferences, specified by a user , that affect the user experience that results from adaptation for a given delivery context
user interface, user interface,

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

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

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A delimited set of user clicks across one or more Web servers.
user styles

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

User styles are style property values that come from user interface settings, user style sheets, or other user interactions.
user-defined data elements

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

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.
user-defined function

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

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.

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