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- URI (Universal resource identifier)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The string (often starting with http:) that is used to identify
anything on the Web.
- URL (Uniform resource locator)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A term used sometimes for certain URIs to indicate that they
might change. See URI.
- viola
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
An interpreted computer language (like Java) developed by Pei
Wei at the University of Berkeley. Also, a Web browser built using
Viola.
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An early review I wrote of Viola
- virtual hypertext
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Hypertext that is generated from its URI by a program, rather
than by recourse to a stored file. This was my name for the idea.
The CERN phone book was the first example, in 1991. It is sometimes
difficult to tell, and impossible to define formally, what is
virtual hypertext and what is not.
- VRML (Virtual reality modeling language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
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.
- W3C (World wide web consortium)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A neutral meeting of those to whom the Web is important, with
the mission of leading the Web to its full potential.
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- WAI (Web accessibility initiative)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A domain of W3C that attempts to ensure the use of the Web by
anyone regardless of disability.
- WAIS (Wide area information servers)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle
while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines,
but without hypertext.
- web
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
- world wide web
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
(three words; also known as WWW) The set of all
information accessible using computers and networking, each unit of
information identified by a URI.
- worldWideWeb (one word; no spaces)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The name of the first Web client, a browser/editor that ran on
a NeXT machine.
- X
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The X Window system, invented by Bob Scheifler; a standard
interface between a program and a screen that was ubiquitous on
Unix systems. Unlike Microsoft's Windows, from the beginning X
allowed programs running on one machine to display on another,
across the Internet. Scheifler ran the X Consortium from MIT/LCS
for many years, then spun it off, and eventually closed it.
- X.Org is the worldwide
consortium empowered with the stewardship and collaborative
development of the X Window System technology and standards
Ted Nelson's planned global hypertext project.
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.
A style sheet language, like CSS, but also allowing document
transformation.
- xanadu
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Ted Nelson's planned global hypertext project.
- XML (Extensible markup language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
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)
A style sheet language, like CSS, but also allowing document
transformation.
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