Glossary of Terms

In an effort to provide our clients with a better understanding of the more commonly used Internet terminology, we have created this Glossary of Internet Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms.

 

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X-BITMAP  ::   An uncompressed black and white image file format (.xbm).

XHTML  ::   Extensible Hypertext Markup Language - A reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0. XHTML is a new language for building web pages that has recently been proposed as a W3C Recommendation.

XML  ::   Short for Extensible Markup Language, a new specification being developed by the W3C World Wide Web Consortium. XML is a language allowing developers to create their own markup tags.

All XML tags are defined by the programmer, and can be interpreted differently in different applications. For example, the "" tag in HTML means Italics, but could mean anything in XML, depending on the function the developer assigns to it.

XML (Extensible Markup Language)  ::   Like HTML, is an outgrowth of SGML that permits developers to control and display data in the same way they control text and graphics today. XML is not a replacement for HTML.

X-PIXELMAP  ::   An uncompressed color image file format (.xpm).