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Web Acronyms and File Extensions

List of acronyms commonly used in web technology circles, discussions and documentation.  Check out the searchable Acronyn Finder for any that aren't listed following.

ASP
Active Server Pages
Application Service Provider
B2B
Business to Business
B2C
Business to Customer/Client

BEEP
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
CCPP
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles
CGI
Common Gateway Interface
CLR
Common Language Runtime
COM

Component Object Model
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CSS
Cascading StyleSheet
DHTML
Dynamic Hyper-Text Markup Language
DTD
Document Type Definition

DNS
Domain Name Server
DOM
Document Object Model
DOS
Denial-of-Service
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
GIF
Graphic Interchange Format
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP
Hypertext Transport Protocol
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force

IIS
Internet Information Server
IRC
Internet Relay Chat
ISP
Internet Service Provider
J2EE
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP
Java Server Pages

LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MSIL

Microsoft Intermediate Language
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
OPML
Outline Processor Markup Language

P2P

Peer to Peer

P3P
Platform for Privacy Preferences

PDA

Personal digital assistant

PDF
Portable Document Format
PHP

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PICS
Platform for Internet Content Selection
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
RDBMS
Relational Database Management System

RDF
Resource Description Framework
RSS
Resource / channel description
SAX
Simple API for XML
SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle
SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language
SLA
Service-Level Agreement
SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL
Structured Query Language

SSI
Server Side Include
SSL
Secure Socket Layer
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
SWF
Shockwave File Extension
TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Protocol
TLD
Top Level Domain
UDDI
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
URI
Universal Resource Identifier
URL
Uniform Resource Locator

VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
W3C
Worldwide Web Consortium
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol
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

XML-RPC
XML - Remote Procedure Call
XSL
eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations


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