Glossary of Terms

Let's keep it Brief

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Abbreviations and acronyms are all well and good if you know what they mean. Here is a list of ones I have used often for general, every day content and more technical terms I've used in web design. This page is more of a reference for myself but you may also find it useful.
Hover a term to reveal its meaning or select the term to be directed to Wikipedia for more detailed information.

A

  • accesskey
  • ADO
  • Ajax
  • API
  • ARIA
  • ASP
  • ASP.Net

B

C

  • CDN
  • Chrome
  • CSLA.Net
  • CMS
  • CRUD
  • CSS
  • CSV
  • C#

D

  • DOCTYPE
  • DOM
  • DRY
  • DTD

E

  • EF

F

  • Favicon
  • Faux columns
  • FOUC
  • FAQ
  • Fx

G

  • GCF
  • GIF
  • GUI

H

  • HTA
  • HTML
  • HTML5
  • HTTP

I

  • IDE
  • IE
  • IE broken box model
  • IE5 Mac

J

  • jpegJSP
  • JS - ( JavaScript )
  • JSON

K

L

M

  • Mac
  • Maxthon
  • Mozilla
  • MVC

N

  • Netscape
  • NS4
  • NHibernate
  • .NET

O

  • Object-oriented
  • Opera
  • ORM

P

  • PHP
  • PNG

Q

  • Quirks mode

R

  • RWD

S

  • Safari
  • SEO
  • SVG

T

  • T4

U

  • Unicode
  • URL
  • UI

V

  • VB

W

  • Web Services
  • WebSockets
  • WPF
  • WYSIWYG
  • W3C

X

  • XHTML
  • XML
  • XML Schema
  • XPath
  • XSLT

Y

Z

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