Bookmark | Browsers provide a means of assigning easily recognizable names to Internet addresses and storing them in interactive lists for ease of access and reuse. |
Browser | A software application that enables users to access and interact with much of the information available on the Internet or World Wide Web. |
HTML | Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) is a standardized set of symbols and rules that, when applied during the design of a Web page, define how that page will be interpreted by a browser and appear to a viewer. |
Hypertext | The contents of a document within which individual items of information can be linked to other document sources by an orderly system of cross-referencing. Today the term invariably refers to computer files available on the Internet or World Wide Web that are formatted and cross-linked in prescribed ways to be commonly accessible and consistently presented though use of an Internet browser. |
Internet | The Internet, or the 'Net' as it is commonly known, is a data communications network that ties together many smaller networks and individual servers, making it possible for users to access information at hundreds of thousands of participating computer sites. |
ISP | An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is an organization or commercial enterprise that offers access or portal service to individual subscribers. Such subscribers link to their chosen ISP via a point-to-point connection that gives them access to the Internet at large. |
Portal | A gateway or Internet access point for individual Web users. |
Protocol | A set of rules and procedures governing one or more aspects of communications between nodes on a data network. Such rules are needed to guarantee the orderly sharing of resources, security, and the integrity of transmitted information. |
URL | A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is the Internet address of a specific file accessible on the Net. The URL may also contain information about how to interpret the file. An example would be www.wapforum.org. |
W3C | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an Internet industry group created to develop, monitor, and promote technical standards that increase the functionality of the Web. For more information, go to World Wide Web Consortium. |
WAP | The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open, globally recognized protocol specification that empowers mobile services subscribers to use wireless devices to easily access and interact with information and services similar or identical to those available on the Web or Net. Overcoming the constraints of (relatively) slow and intermittent nature of wireless links for mobile communications, together with the limited screen size and computing power of mobile devices, is the central goal of WAP technology. |
WAP Application | A WAP-compatible/accessible Web-based application. |
WAP Bookmark | A Web address for a WAP-compatible Web site or page. |
WAP Browser | A browser designed to run on mobile computing or communications devices that adheres to WAP standards and gives the user access to WAP services and WAP-compatible Web sites. |
WAP Forum | The WAP Forum is the industry association of over 500 members that has developed the WAP standard for wireless information and telephony services on digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals. Founding members include Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Phone.com. |
WAP Gateway | A wireless network element that mediates the transfer of WAP-compatible information between wireless networks and the Web. The gateway bridges the differences between the worlds of wired and wireless information exchange. |
WAP Server | A Web server supporting WAP-compatible applications, content, and services. |
WAP Service Bearer | Any of several wireless communication access methods that may be used to support WAP-based services. Short Message Service (SMS), Circuit Switched Data Service (CSD), and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) can be used as WAP service bearers in GSM networks. |
Web | An informal term commonly used to replace World Wide Web. |
Web Page | A Web-accessible file that can be interpreted by a browser. |
Web Server | A publicly accessible computer that acts as a repository for hypertext files and Internet applications, and which makes these files available on an interactive basis via the Web. |
WML | Wireless Mark-up Language (WML) is similar to HTML in many ways and serves a similar purpose. However, WML has been specially designed and optimized to take into account the constraints of mobile communications and mobile customer equipment such as cell phones and PDAs. |
World Wide Web | The part of the Internet that is publicly accessible and which makes information accessible through use of Hypertext Transfer Protocols and in formats generally recognized and supported by the W3C. HTML is the original and still the best known such format. |
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