- ALEX WHITHAM
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- Electronic Wallet
- Software that stores billing and shipping information.
- ByteCode
- A compiled Java applet that is executed by Java Virtual Machine.
- Broken Link
- A non-functioning web-link.
- Clear GIF
- A small graphic on a web page that installs cookies designed to track your online activities. AKA a web bug.
- Cookie
- A message sent from a webs server to a browser and saved on a user's hard drive.
- XHTML
- The follow up version to HTML 4.
- Packet Sniffer
- A program that monitors data as it travles over networks.
- P3P
- (Platform For Privacy Preferences Project) A specification that allows Web browsers to automatically detedt a Web site's privacy policies.
- Link Tag
- HTML code that is used to designate text as a hyperlink in code.
- CGI
- Common Gate Interface
- Cryptographic Algorithim
- A specific procedure for encrypting and decrypting data.
- Cryptographic Key
- A specific word, number, or phrase that must be used to encrypt or decrypt data.
- Media Tags
- HTML code that specifies how to display media elements in a document.
- Strong Encyption
- Encryption that is difficult to decrypt without the encryption key.
- Text Editor
- Software, such as Notepad, that is similar to a word processor, but used to create plain, unformatted ASII text.
- SET
- Secure Electronic Transmission
- Spyware
- Any software that covertly gathers user information without the user's knowledge, usually for advertising purposes.
- Flash Animation
- A popular proprietary animation format developed by Macromedia and frequently use on the Web.
- Web Page Header
- Also called header, a subtitle that appears at the beginning of a Web page.
- Web Page Table
- A grid of cells that are used as layout tools, for elements such as text and graphics placement in a Web page.
- XML
- Extensible StyleSheet Language
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language
- XML Parser
- A tool in most browsers used for reading XML documents.
- Nouseover
- The action of passing the pointer over a Web page element, typically a graphic, to trigger a change, such as making an image, link, or tooltip appear.
- Markup language
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