Term | Definition |
Object | Contains data and procedures for how that item will react when activated. |
Object Oriented Programming | Objects and data and how they relate to one another. |
Java | Object Oriented Programming. |
Applets | Programs written in Java and designed to run within a Web browser when accessed. |
Dynamic | Always changing |
Interactive | The characteristic of some hardware and software, such as computers, games, and multimedia systems, that allows then to respond differently based on a user’s actions. |
Event- Driven | The web is event driven. |
LiveScript | LiveScript is a language that compiles to JavaScript. It's just JavaScript with some syntax improvements and feature additions, making functional style programming easier. |
ActiveX | an open set of technologies for integrating components on the Internet and within Microsoft applications |
Visual Basic Script (VBScript) | an object-oriented scripting language that Microsoft derived from the Visual Basic programming language |
Visual Basic | Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft |
Geolocation | The ability for developers to retrieve the geographical location information for a client-side device. |
Cascading Style Sheets | Style sheet language that provides the formatting and "look" of a web page or document written in a markup language. |
Plug- Ins | A program installed in the browser to extend basic functionality. Allows different file formats to be viewed as part of a standard HTML document. |
Disk Cache | Instead of loading the entire file at once, many plug-ins retrieve a small portion at a time and store the data in the local disk cache. |
Streaming Media | Using a cache, the plug-in delivers just enough information to build a continuous stream of data, which eliminates transfer delays. |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI) | A standard computer interface for creating and playing electronic music. It allows computers to re-create music in digital format for playback. |
Lossless Compression | All the orignal data can be recovered when the original file is decompressed. |
Lossy Compression | Permanently eliminates some of the information. |
Codec | Decompress and play streaming media. |
Vector Graphics | Resizable images that are saved as a sequence of vector statements, which describes a series of points being connected. |
QuickTime | A plug- in for Apple Computers for storing movie and audio files in digital format. |
QuickTime Movie | Standard formst file for Apple quickTime; uses the .mov., .moov. or qt. file name extension. |
Viewer | A down- scaled version of an application; designed to view and print files. |
Portable Document Format | A file format that ca nbe transferred across platforms and retain its formating; designated by the file name extension .pdf. |
Audio Video Interleave | Standard Windows file format for video files. |
Moving Picture Expert Group | high- quality audio and video file compression ormat. |
AU | Audio file format used by Unix servers, the majority of Web servers. Most web browsers can read AU. |
Waveform | Windows standard format for audio files. |
MPEG I | Popular compression standard for audio files; retains most of the sound quality of the source. |
OGG Vorbis | A free open-source alternative to the MP3 compression format for audio files; creates smaller, faster downloading files. |
Portable Network Graphics | An open source graphical image file format created to replace GIF's. |
Graphic Interchange Format | A graphical image file forrmat commonly used in HTML documents. |
Joint Photographic Expert Group | A graphical image file format commonly used for photographs. |
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) | Commonly used graphic file format, developed by Aldus Corporation; uses the .tiff file name extension. |
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) | File format used for importing and exporting graphics. |
Rich Text Format | Portable text file format by Microsoft that allows image insertion and text formating; an almost universal format. |