Apr
24
2007
Acronyms All Web Developers Should Know
Posted by Jon Lee in Web Development, tags: acronyms, terminology, web developmentIn web development, we use a lot of acronyms every day for many reasons:
- Accepted convention
- To save syllables
- To impress
- To sound smart
- Because we don’t know what the actual acronym stands for
I’m sure you use terms like RSS, PHP and CGI all the time but do you know what they actually stand for? If you do, great! If not, here’s a list in alphabetical order!
- AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XML
- ASP - Active Server Pages
- CGI - Common Gateway Interface
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- DHTML - Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
- DOM - Document Object Model
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP(s) – Hypertext Transfer Protocol (secure)
- PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor*
- RSS - Really Simple Syndication
- SQL - Structured Query Language
- SSH - Secure Shell
- SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
- URI/URL – Uniform Resource Identifier/Locator
- WWW - World Wide Web
- XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
* PHP is a recursive initialism like GNU (GNU’s Not Unix)
This list is just off the top of my head, so I’m sure I’m missing some important ones. Leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list!
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