Weekly Discussion

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
College of Computing Sciences (CCS)
CIS485-451/CIS 786-851: World Wide Web Standards, Fall 2001
Professor: Michael Bieber

Web Standards Resources

Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Internet Terms and Technical Support
Web Standards Project (WaSP): promotes browser compliance with standards (Thanks to Ava-Gale)
A good site to check for compatibility of your webpage in different browsers and versions: http://websitegarage.netscape.com/ (Thanks to Ava-Gale)

(last updated 10/12/01)

Please suggest additional acronyms for this list in the "Acronym/Definition/Standards/Links" Conference on WebBoard.

CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect (Thanks to Suzanne)
DTDs - Document Type Definitions (Thanks to Niral)
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME is a mechanism for specifying and describing the format of Internet message bodies (Thanks to Poornima)
ODBC- Open Database Connectivity
A protocol for heterogeneous database access (Thanks to Ava-Gale)
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding (the old name of Active X) (Thanks to Ava-Gale and John)
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

(last updated 10/12/01)

Please suggest additional acronyms for this list in the Acronym/Definition/Standards/Links Conference on WebBoard.

complying with a standard
conforming to a standard
gateway/proxy/tunnel
These are three common forms of intermediary: proxy, gateway, and tunnel in the http request/response chain from a browser to a Web server.
A proxy is a forwarding agent, receiving requests for a URI in its absolute form, rewriting all or part of the message, and forwarding the reformatted request toward the server identified by the URI.
A gateway is a receiving agent, acting as a layer above some other server(s) and, if necessary, translating the requests to the underlying server's protocol.
A tunnel acts as a relay point between two connections without changing the messages; tunnels are used when the communication needs to pass through an intermediary (such as a firewall) even when the intermediary cannot understand the contents of the messages.
protocol
reify
render
resource
Web3D
The term Web3D describes any programming or descriptive language that can be used to deliver interactive 3D objects and worlds across the internet. Web3D is a Consortium that provides a forum for the creation of open standards for Web3D specifications, and to accelerate the worldwide demand for products based on these standards through the sponsorship of market and user education programs.
References/link: http://www.vrml.org/ (Thanks to Ava-Gale)

(last updated 9/12/01)

Please suggest additional links for this list in the Acronym/Definition/Standards/Links Conference on WebBoard.

Web Standards Project (WASP)
W3C Standards "Roadmaps"
World Standards Services Networks (WSSN). WSSN is a web server of standards organizations. WSSN provides the information of international, regional and national standardizations and their activities. (Binita)