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
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P2P
- Peer to Peer
- P3P
- Platform for Privacy Preferences
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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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