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Script
A generally short program written in an interpreted language such as Perl or Java. Scripts usually provide simple instructions for data and browser management.

Search
Submitting a word or phrase to a web catalog or engine and receiving a series of URLs containing the word or phrase. Search engines have become an important method of locating data on the web.

Search Engine
Software that searches through a database located on you computer. At Web-based search engines, surfers type in a keyword query (descriptor words), and the search engine responds with a list of all the sites in its database fitting the query description.

Secure Server
Software which prevents network transactions from being decoded, thus preserving the privacy of credit card numbers and other sensitive information. When a URL points to a web page stored on a secure Web server, the URL always begins with https ://. In Netscape, the broken key at the bottom of the screen becomes whole, a blue rule appears at the top of the screen and the Location box becomes a Website box when a secure server is contacted.

Secure Transaction
A secure transaction is a transaction between a browser and a server that both support the same security protocol. When a URL points to a Web page stored on a secure Web server, the URL always begins with https://.

Security
Software, utilities and hardware which prevent data and applications from being inappropriately accessed or destroyed.

Server
A computer and software that maintains information and applications accessed by distributed users. A program running on an Internet site that makes the web pages at that site available to browsers throughout the Internet.

Server Side Imagemap

A graphic with sub-areas that are linked to different URLs. The MAP that relates parts of the image to different URLs is stored on the server.

SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language. A simple coding language using hard-coded tags to represent markup. An SGML document is a sequence of characters organized physically as a set of entities and logically into a hierarchy of elements. An SGML document consists of data characters and markup; the markup describes the structure of the information and an instance of that structure.

Shockwave
A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is now freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer web browsers. A technology developed by Macromedia, Inc, that allows the user to view Web pages with multimedia objects, such as audio, animation, video, and processes user actions such as mouse clicks.

SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Sound
Digitizing voices, music, etc.. so they can be played by a computer. Popular sound file formats include AU, WAV, SND, MPEG, MIDI, AIFF.

Streaming
The simultaneous download and display of a video or audio file.

Submit
A form input attribute that transfers data from a form to a script or mailto action.


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Table
An HTML tag used for element layout. Tables are useful not only for the desirable capability of organizing tabular data such as statistics by row and column, but especially for the feature of laying out any element of the HTML language.

TCP
Stands for Transmission Control Protocol. both the protocol and software that ensure that data sent over the Net arrive in the correct order.

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A group of protocols that specify how computers communicate over the Internet. All computers on the Internet need TCP/IP software.

See also IP Address.

Telnet
An Internet command that allows your computer to directly connect and interact with remote computers, often through a text-based 'terminal' environment. Often involves the need for passwords and access information.

Text Browser
A client that displays the text elements and hyperlinks of Web pages, such as lynx.

Title
Normally the highlighted header or title, usually underlined in search tools. The title displayed in search engines is generally from the "meta" field called title, which is not mandatory in HTML coding. Sometimes you retrieve a document with "No Title" as its supposed title; this is caused when the meta-title field is left blank. In Alta Vista and some other search tools, title: search also matches on the "meta" field, which contains document descriptors not displayed on the Web.

Tiling
The process in which a single (small) image is duplicated horizontally, vertically or both to create the illusion of a large version of the small image.


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