Henry's Web Notes

I want to blog some basic stuff for at least a month. How about I start with listing some of the acronyms commonly use on the web. You probably already heard all of them, but do you know what they stand for? Here they are:

ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AJAX – Asynchronous Javascript
ASP – Active Server Pages
CGI – Common Gateway Interface
CF – Cold Fusion
CFM – Cold Fusion
CFML – Cold Fusion
CSS – Cascading Style Sheet
DB – Database
DHTML – Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
DMX – Dreamweaver MX
DOM – Document Object Model
DTD – Document Type Definition
DW – Dreamweaver
FF – Firefox
FE – Front-end
FEE – Front-end Engineer
FH – Freehand
FL – Flash
FP – Fireworks
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
FW – Fireworks
GIF – Graphic interchange Format
GUI – Graphical User Interface
HDML – Handheld Device Markup Language
HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS – Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IDE – Integrated Development/Design Environment
IE – Internet Explorer
IP – Internet Protocol
IRI – Internationalized Resource Identifier
JPG/JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
JS – Javascript
JSP – JavaServer Pages
LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python
MIME – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MM – Macromedia
MOZ – Mozilla
MSIE – Microsoft Internet Explorer
NN – Netscape Navigator
PERL – Practical Extraction/Expansion and Report Language
PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor
PNG – Portable Network Graphics
POP – Post Office Protocol
PS – Photoshop
RDF – Resource Description Framework
REST – Representational State Transfer
RPC – Remote Procedure Call
RS – Recordset
RTSP – Realtime Streaming Protocol
SB – Server Behavior
SGML – Standard Generalized Markup Language
SMIL – Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL – Structured Query Language
SRGS – Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
SSI – Server Side Includes
SSML – Speech Synthesis Markup Language
SSL – Secure Sockets Layer
SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol
TLS – Transport Layer Security
UCS – Universal Character Set
UI – User Interface
URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
URL – Uniform Resource Locator
UTF – Unicode Transformation Format
W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative
WASP – Windows, Apache, SQL, PHP
WML – Wireless Markup Language
WSDL – Web Services Description Language
WWW – World Wide Web
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
XHTML – Extensible HyperText Markup Language
XML – Extensible Markup Language
XPATH – XML Path Language
XRI – Extensible Resource Identifier
XSL – Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT – Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations

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