Glossary
Application Programming Interface - a set of functions that you can use in your programs to work with a component.
A data type that can take only the values TRUE and FALSE. In RealWeb TRUE is defined as any non-zero integer, and FALSE as 0 or a null string. Any other values generate a run time error.
An alternative way to specify a text character. Character entities should be used when you need to display characters that have special meaning to the browser, such as the less-than and greater-than symbols, and the ampersand character. Refer to your HTML documentation for more details.
A cookie is a small amount of named data stored by the web browser and associated with a particular page or web site. Cookies serve to give the web browser a memory, so that it can recall user preferences or other state variables when the user leaves a page and subsequently returns, or can pass data between pages.
Cascading Style Sheet - a mechanism by which the presentation of an HTML page can be separated from the content. A style sheet can be used to determine the appearance of one or more HTML pages.
Dynamic HyperText Markup Language - a mechanism for adding active content to web pages.
A multi-element string variable in which data is divided into elements by attribute marks, value marks and subvalue marks, matching the structure of a Reality file item. The entire array is referenced and stored as a single variable. For more information, refer to the DataBasic Reference.
HyperText Markup Language - a document layout and hyperlink specification language.
HyperText Transfer Protocol
A programming language supported by most web browsers. Client-side JavaScript allows executable content to be included with web pages.
A mechanism by which DataBasic subroutines can be called from a remote system.
A server-side Java program that services HTTP requests and returns HTTP responses.
An HTML direction, embedded within a web page. The web browser uses the information inside the HTML tags to decide how to display or otherwise treat the subsequent contents of your HTML document.
Uniform Resource Locator - a web address.
A programming language that allows executable content to be included with web pages. VBScript is supported only by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Extensible Markup Language