Glossary
- AJAX
- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML—a set of techniques for creating dynamic and responsive web applications that can get additional data from web servers without a page reload.
- DLL
- Dynamic Link Library—A shared software library.
- i18n
- Internationalization—The 18 represents the omitted letters.
- ISAPI
- Internet Server Application Programming Interface—An API for the Microsoft web server to deliver dynamic web pages.
- JSON
- JavaScript Object Notation—A compact notation for data interchange. It is a subset of JavaScript syntax for creating objects and arrays.
- REST
- Representational State Transfer—a software architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems like the world wide web. The term originated in a 2000 doctoral dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures about the web written by Roy Fielding. See also: RestWiki and Representational State Transfer - Wikipedia
- UI
- User Interface—The means by which a computer (or more generally any machine or device) allows a human to interact with it.
- XHR
- XMLHttpRequest—An API that allows JavaScript to make HTTP requests without causing the browser to navigate to a new page.
