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Web-centric Computing

Especially Important Vocabulary

All students should be familiar with all of the technical terms listed below. Note that some of the terms are grouped under the heading of a related term.

Accessibility
Audience
B2B
Blog
Client/Server Architecture: client, content negotiation, header, method, middleware, network layer, operating system, request, response, server, session, socket, transaction, proxy
Cookie
Common Gateway Interface
Cascading Style Sheets: cascade, graceful enhancement, media, inheritance, rule, selector, specificity, property
Domain Object Model
Favelet
Hypertext: augmentation, link type, micro-payments, transclusion, versioning
Language: computer language, grammar, macro languages, markup language, programming language, syntax
Metadata: blacklists, filtering, labels, label bureau, PICS rules, Semantic Web, whitelists
MIME
MUDs and MOOs
Network Degredation: catastrophic degredation, graceful degredation
Programming Models/Paradigms: event-driven programming, object-oriented programming, procedural/imperative programming
Quirks mode
RSS
Security: access control, accountability, authentication, authorization, assurance, availability, cryptography, error codes, firewall, hashing, HTTPS, P3P, privacy, protection, risk, risk management, SET, SSL, signature
Self-Organizing Community
Servlet: encapsulation
Sparrow Web Net
Standards: de facto standard, de jure standard; cynicism, optimism, pessimism, pragmatism
Stickiness
State: state, statefullness, stateless, URL rewriting
(X)HTML: attribute, DOCTYPE, DTD, element, tag; block element, in-line element; form, link & meta, span & div, img & object; logical markup, presentational/procedural markup, & presentation/rendering
Web Addresses: URI, URL, URN
Web Graph: distribution, information ecology, Metcalfe's Law, power law, random walk, Zipf's Law
Wiki

Web-centric Computing

Especially Important Vocabulary

See Also

`http://www.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/course/CS/4173/Course/goals/vocab.html`