Internet technologies
This WhatIs.com glossary contains terms related to Internet technologies, including definitions about port numbers, standards and protocols and words and phrases about how the Internet works.WIR - ZOP
- Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) - Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security protocol, specified in the IEEE Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) standard, 802.
- wireless broadband (WiBB) - Wireless broadband is high-speed Internet and data service delivered through a wireless local area network (WLAN) or wide area network (WWAN).
- Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) - Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) is the security level for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) applications.
- wireless Web - The wireless Web refers to use of the World Wide Web through a wireless device, such as a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant (PDA).
- WordPress - WordPress is free, open source publishing software that can be installed locally on a web server and viewed on a proprietary web site or hosted in the cloud and viewed on the WordPress web site.
- workaround - A workaround is a method, sometimes used temporarily, for achieving a task or goal when the usual or planned method isn't working.
- workplace (user interface) - In a computer user interface, a workplace is a personalized view of a company and its processes that builds on the popular desktop metaphor.
- World Wide Web (WWW) - The World Wide Web is the combination of all resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
- WS-Coordination (Web Services Coordination) - WS-Coordination (Web Services Coordination) is a proposed IT industry standard for how individual Web services can interact in order to accomplish an application task.
- WS-I Organization (Web Services Interoperability) - The WS-I (Web Services Interoperability) Organization is an association of IT industry companies, including IBM and Microsoft, that aim to create Web services specifications that all companies can use.
- WS-Security (Web Services Security) - WS-Security (Web Services Security) is a proposed IT industry standard that addresses security when data is exchanged as part of a Web service.
- WS-Transaction - WS-Transaction is one of a series of specifications from an industry group that includes IBM, Microsoft, and BEA Systems.
- WSTx (Web Services Transactions) - WSTx (Web Services Transaction) is a set of XML markup specifications designed to permit the use of open, standard protocols for secure, reliable transactions across the Web.
- X - X# is the name that has been given to a "data-centric" programming language that Microsoft is said to be developing in order to make it easier for a programmer to specify XML-defined data and how it should be handled by the program.
- XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language) - XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language) is an open standard XML-based language designed to express security policies and access rights to information for Web services, digital rights management (DRM), and enterprise security applications.
- Xalan - Xalan is a specification for transforming Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other XML document types.
- XDMA (Xing Distributed Media Architecture) - XDMA (Xing Distributed Media Architecture) is a network architecture for multicast streaming media transmissions.
- Xerces - Xerces (the name comes from the Xerces blue butterfly) is a set of parsers compatible with Extensible Markup Language (XML).
- XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) - As the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) describes it, XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is "a reformulation of HTML 4.
- XING - XING is a European social networking website for business professionals.
- XML (Extensible Markup Language) - Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a text-based format that allows for the structuring of electronic documents and is not limited to a set of labels.
- XML Core Services - XML Core Services (formerly known as MSXML, for Microsoft Extensible Markup Language or XML) is an application for processing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) in an XML file.
- XML pipeline - An XML pipeline is a formalized, logical expression of the method by which an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document is handled.
- XMT (Extensible MPEG-4 Textual) - The XMT (Extensible MPEG-4 Textual) format is the use of a textual syntax to represent MPEG-4 3-D scene descriptions.
- XPRL (Extensible Public Relations Language) - XPRL (Extensible Public Relations Language) is an open specification for an XML-based language being developed for the public relations sector.
- XQuery - XQuery is a specification for a query language that allows a user or programmer to extract information from an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file or any collection of data that can be XML-like.
- XrML (Extensible Rights Markup Language) - XrML (Extensible Rights Markup Language) is a proposed standard digital rights management (DRM) markup language.
- XSD (XML Schema Definition) - XSD is a W3C recommendation that defines the way to utilize the elements in an XML document.
- XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) - XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), formerly called Extensible Style Language, is a language for creating a style sheet that describes how data sent over the Web using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is to be presented to the user.
- XSL Transformations (XSLT) - XSL Transformations (XSLT) is a standard way to describe how to transform (change) the structure of an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document into an XML document with a different structure.
- Yammer - Yammer is a private microblogging and collaboration platform for enterprise social networking.
- YouTube - YouTube is a free video-hosting website that allows members to store and serve video content.
- zone file - A zone file is a small set of instructions for resolving specified Internet domain names to the appropriate number form of an Internet Protocol address (an IP address).
- Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment) - Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment)is a Web site builder and server that uses the idea that it is serving (or "publishing") objects rather than merely providing content that will be added to a Web page.