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nglayout project
glossary
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets: Standard for
defining presentation in Web documents. NGLayout supports CSS1 and most of CSS2.
Read the
documentation for our style system.
- BAM
- The Netscape internal code-name for our code modularization effort. It stands for "Born Again
Modularization." It hinges upon XPCOM.
- CCP
- Cut, Copy and Paste (clipboard operations)
- CVS
- The preferred method for obtaining NGLayout source code and staying in synch with the development
effort. See our CVS page for more info.
- DND
- Drag and drop
- DOM
- Document Object Model - the heart of Dynamic HTML. See our DOM technical
documentation for more details.
- DTD
- Document Type Definition - specifies a set of elements, their relationships and the tag set to mark
the document. A good introduction to SGML concepts can be found here.
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language - NGLayout implements HTML 4.0; see the W3C's HTML site for more info
- libfont
- Font library
- imglib
- Image library
- JS
- JavaScript
- netlib
- Networking library
- NGLayout
- Next Generation Layout Engine - see our home page for more info
- Raptor
- Former code-name for NGLayout. We were asked to stop using it in public due to trademark
problems. So don't use it :-)
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework
- see our RDF technical documentation for
more info
- UI
- User Interface
- Widget
- Widgets are buttons, drop-downs, input fields, etc. Needed for form elements.
- WIP
- Work in Progress
- XIF
- XML Interchange Format - used internally by NGLayout for all I/O to clipboard, etc.
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language - see the W3C's XML site for
more info
- XPCOM
- Cross Platform Component Object Model - see our docs on how to modularize your code for more
info
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