Learn a new term:
- Funci贸
- Una funci贸 茅s un fragment de codi que pot ser cridat per altres codis o per si mateix, o una variable que fa refer猫ncia a la funci贸. Quan una funci贸 es cridada, es passan arguments a la funci贸 com a entrada, i opcionalment la funci贸 pot retornar una sortida. Una funci贸 de JavaScript 茅s tamb茅 un objecte.
Web technologies contain long lists of jargon and abbreviations that are used in documentation and coding. This glossary provides definitions of words and abbreviations you need to know to successfully understand and build for the web.
Glossary of Terms
A
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A
B
C
- Cache
- Cacheable
- CalDAV
- Call stack
- Callback function
- Canonical order
- Canvas
- Car脿cter
- Card sorting
- CardDAV
- caret
- CDN
- Certificate authority
- Certified
- Challenge-response authentication
- Character set
- Chrome
- CIA
- Cipher
- Cipher suite
- Ciphertext
- Class
- Client hints
- Closure
- CMS
- Code splitting
- Codec
- Codificaci贸 de car脿cters
- Compile
- Compile time
- Computer Programming
- Conditional
- Constant
- Constructor
- Continuous Media
- Control flow
- Cookie
- Copyleft
- CORS
- CORS-safelisted request header
- CORS-safelisted response header
- Crawler
- CRLF
- Cross Axis
- Cross-site scripting
- CRUD
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic hash function
- Cryptography
- CSP
- CSRF
- CSS
- CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
- CSS pixel
- CSS preprocessor
D
- Data structure
- Database
- Decryption
- Delta
- Denial of Service
- Descriptor (CSS)
- Deserialization
- Developer Tools
- DHTML
- Digest
- Digital certificate
- Distributed Denial of Service
- DMZ
- DNS
- Doctype
- Document directive
- document environment
- DOM
- Domain
- Domain name
- Domain sharding
- Dominator
- DoS attack
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling)
- Dynamic programming language
- Dynamic typing
E
F
- Fallback alignment
- Falsy
- Favicon
- Fetch directive
- Fetch metadata request header
- Firefox OS
- firewall
- First contentful paint
- First CPU idle
- First input delay
- First interactive
- First Meaningful Paint
- First paint
- First-class Function
- Flex
- Flex Container
- Flex Item
- Flexbox
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Fork
- Fragmentainer
- frame rate (FPS)
- FTP
- FTU
- Funci贸
- Fuzz testing
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
- P2P
- PAC
- Packet
- Page load time
- Page prediction
- Parameter
- Parent object
- Parse
- Parser
- Perceived performance
- Percent-encoding
- PHP
- Pixel
- Placeholder names
- Plaintext
- PNG
- Polyfill
- Polymorphism
- POP3
- Port
- Prefetch
- Preflight request
- Prerender
- Presto
- Primitiu
- Privileged
- privileged code
- Progressive Enhancement
- Progressive web apps
- Promise
- Property (CSS)
- Property (JavaScript)
- Propietat
- Protocol
- Prototype
- Prototype-based programming
- Proxy server
- Pseudo-class
- Pseudo-element
- Pseudocode
- Public-key cryptography
- Python
Q
R
- RAIL
- Random Number Generator
- Raster image
- RDF
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Recursion
- Reference
- Refer猫ncies a objectes
- Reflow
- Regular expression
- Rendering engine
- Repo
- Reporting directive
- Request header
- Resource Timing
- Response header
- Responsive web design
- REST
- RGB
- RIL
- Robots.txt
- Round Trip Time (RTT)
- Routers
- RSS
- RTCP (RTP Control Protocol)
- RTF
- RTL (Right to Left)
- RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) and SRTP (Secure RTP)
- RTSP: Real-time streaming protocol
- Ruby
S
- Safe
- Same-origin policy
- SCM
- Screen reader
- Script-supporting element
- Scroll container
- Scrollport
- SCTP
- SDP
- Search engine
- Second-level Domain
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Selector (CSS)
- Self-Executing Anonymous Function
- Semantics
- SEO
- Serialization
- Server Timing
- Servidor
- Session Hijacking
- SGML
- Shadow tree
- Shim
- Signature
- Signature (functions)
- Signature (security)
- SIMD
- Simple header
- Simple response header
- SISD
- Site
- Site map
- SLD
- Sloppy mode
- Slug
- Smoke Test
- SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
- SMTP
- Snap positions
- SOAP
- SPA (Single-page application)
- Specification
- Speed index
- SQL
- SQL Injection
- SRI
- Stacking context
- State machine
- Statement
- Static method
- Static typing
- Strict mode
- String
- STUN
- Style origin
- Stylesheet
- SVG
- SVN
- Symbol
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- Synchronous
- Syntax
- Syntax error
- Synthetic monitoring
T
U
V
W
X
Other
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