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- ECMAScript és el llenguatge de script en el qual es basa JavaScript. Ecma International està a càrrec de la normalització d'ECMAScript.
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Glossary of Terms
A
- Abstraction
- Accessibility
- Accessibility tree (AOM)
- Adobe Flash
- adreça IP (IP address)
- AJAX
- Algorithm
- Alignment container
- Alignment subject
- ALPN
À
A
- API
- Apple Safari
- Application Context
- Argument
- ARIA
- ARPA
- Arpanet
- Array
- ASCII
- Asynchronous
- ATAG
- Atribut
B
- Bandwidth
- Baseline
- beacon
- Bézier curve
- BiDi
- BigInt
- Blink
- Block
- Block (CSS)
- Block (scripting)
- Block cipher mode of operation
- Boolean
- Boot2Gecko
- Bounding Box
- Breadcrumb
- Brotli
- Browsing context
- buffer
C
- Cache
- Cacheable
- CalDAV
- Call stack
- Callback function
- Canonical order
- Canvas
- Caràcter
- 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
- Codificació de caràcters
- 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
- Decryption
- 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
- ECMA
- ECMAScript
- Effective connection type
- Element
- Empty element
- Encapsulation
- Encryption
- Endianness
- Engine
- Entity
- Entity header
- Etiqueta
- Event
- Exception
- Expando
F
- Fallback alignment
- Falsy
- Fetch directive
- 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
- Funció
- Fuzz testing
G
- Gaia
- Garbage collection
- Gecko
- General header
- GIF
- GIJ
- Git
- Global object
- Global scope
- Global variable
- Glyph
- Gonk
- Google Chrome
- GPL
- GPU
- Graceful degradation
- Grid
- Grid Areas
- Grid Axis
- Grid Cell
- Grid Column
- Grid container
- Grid Lines
- Grid Row
- Grid Tracks
- Guard
- Gutters
- Gzip compression
H
- Hash
- Head
- High-level programming language
- HMAC
- Hoisting
- Host
- Hotlink
- Houdini
- HPKP
- HSTS
- HTML
- HTML5
- HTTP
- HTTP header
- HTTP/2
- HTTPS
- Hyperlink
- Hypertext
I
- I18N
- IANA
- ICANN
- ICE
- IDE
- Idempotent
- Identifier
- IDL
- IETF
- IIFE
- IMAP
- Immutable
- Index
- IndexedDB
- Information architecture
- Inheritance
- Input method editor
- Instance
- Internationalization
- Internet
- Intrinsic Size
- IPv4
- IPv6
- IRC
- ISO
- ISP
- ITU
J
K
L
- Latency
- Lazy load
- LGPL
- Ligature
- Local scope
- Local variable
- Locale
- Localization
- Long task
- Loop
- Lossless compression
- lossy compression
- LTR (Left To Right)
M
- Main Axis
- Main thread
- markup
- MathML
- Media
- Media (Audio-visual presentation)
- Media (CSS)
- Metadata
- Mètode
- Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Middleware
- mime
- MIME type
- minification
- MitM
- Mixin
- Mobile First
- Modem
- Modern web apps
- Modularity
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mutable
- MVC
N
- Namespace
- NaN
- NAT
- Native
- Navegador
- Navigation directive
- Netscape Navigator
- Network throttling
- NNTP
- Node
- Node (DOM)
- Node (networking)
- Node.js
- non-normative
- Normative
- Null
- Number
O
- Objecte
- OOP
- OpenGL
- OpenSSL
- Opera Browser
- Operand
- Operator
- Optimizing your pages for speculative parsing
- Origin
- OTA
- OWASP
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
- Raptor
- Raster image
- RDF
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Recursion
- Reference
- Referències 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
- Specification
- Speed index
- SQL
- SQL Injection
- SRI
- Stacking context
- State machine
- Statement
- Static method
- Static typing
- Strict mode
- String
- STUN
- Style origin
- SVG
- SVN
- Symbol
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- Synchronous
- Syntax
- Syntax error
- Synthetic monitoring
T
- TCP
- TCP handshake
- TCP slow start
- Telnet
- Texel
- Thread
- Three js
- Time to first byte
- Time to interactive
- TLD
- TOFU
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Tratando Formulários com PHP
- Tree shaking
- Trident
- Truthy
- TTL
- TURN
- Type
- Type coercion
- Type conversion
U
V
W
- W3C
- WAI
- WCAG
- Web performance
- Web server
- Web standards
- WebDAV
- WebExtensions
- WebGL
- WebIDL
- WebKit
- WebM
- WebP
- WebRTC
- WebSockets
- WebVTT
- WHATWG
- Whitespace
- World Wide Web
- Wrapper
X
Other
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