Glossary
This section contains brief definitions of terms that you might encounter while
learning to use the product.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange, developed by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). System of representing an alphabetic, numeric,
or special character with a 7-bit binary number (string of seven 0s or 1s), which
defines 128 possible characters. UNIX and DOS-based operating systems use ASCII
for text files; while Windows NT and 2000 uses Unicode.
attribute
Characteristic of a tag; for example, the
src
attribute of the
<image>
tag has a value
that is equal to the location of the image to display.
breakpoint
Point in your code where the debugger stops processing and waits for your input.
browser
Program that displays markup language documents and other documents, based on
a document’s structure. Different Web browsers have different rules for the code they
accept and how they display the content of different tags.
class
In CSS, a class is a style definition that is a subset of another style definition. For
example, you could define a class of the paragraph tag for contact information, to
make contact information display centered in large, red, bold text.
In object-oriented programming, a class is a user-defined type (as opposed to
int
,
which is a built-in type). Classes have defined characteristics and behaviors, known
as
attributes
and
methods
. A class serves as a blueprint for an object.
A POSIX character class is a code that represents a set of characters; for example
alpha
represents all alphabetic characters ([A-Za-z]).
Summary of Contents for HOMESITE
Page 11: ...Contents xi Table of CommandID values 310 Table of SettingID values 314 Glossary 323...
Page 12: ...xii Contents...
Page 20: ...xx About This Book...
Page 28: ...8 Chapter 1 Setting Up the Product...
Page 70: ...50 Chapter 4 Managing Files...
Page 88: ...68 Chapter 5 Writing Code and Web Content...
Page 116: ...96 Chapter 6 Editing Pages...
Page 148: ...128 Chapter 7 Using Web Development Languages...
Page 190: ...170 Chapter 11 Deploying Files...
Page 210: ...190 Chapter 12 Testing and Maintaining Web Pages...
Page 216: ...196 Chapter 13 Extending the Help System...
Page 350: ...330 Glossary...
Page 358: ...338 Index...