W3C
W3C refers to the World Wide Web Consortium, the international organization that develops open standards and guidelines for the web, ensuring it is accessible, secure, and works across all devices and browsers. Key computer terms related to W3C include HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the standard language for creating web pages, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a language for describing a document's presentation. The W3C also defines terms for areas like web services and the "Web of Things," such as the concept of a "Thing Description" which formally defines connected devices and their properties.
Key terms
W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium, an international community that develops open standards for the web.
HTML: HyperText Markup Language, the standard language for creating and designing web pages.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): An initiative by W3C that focuses on improving web accessibility for people with disabilities through guidelines like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Web of Things (WoT): An extension of the web to include connected devices, with specific terminology like "Thing Description" which outlines the properties and behaviors of these devices.
Web Services Glossary: A glossary that defines terms used in web services, such as "access control information" which can include contextual information like IP address, encryption strength, and time of day.