Monthly Archives: August 2010

Windows 7 Winsxs

What is Winsxs? The winsxs (Windows Side-by-Side) folder is a system folder. It would not be a good thing to delete this folder. A coworker recently received his every two year work laptop refresh and was in the middle of loading his new laptop with Vista. For some reason, his hard drive C: was partitioned […]

How to clear Skype IM Chat and Call History?

If you’re a frequent Skype user, you might have noticed that Skype keeps a record of all events including instant messages, calls, file transfers and SMS all stored and accessible from the Conversation tab by clicking on the Show History button. Deleting the chat and call history in Skype is easy, but the Delete History […]

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier(URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources. Although browsers are primarily intended to […]

JHTML

JHTML stands for Java HTML. This is a page authoring system developed at Art Technology Group (ATG). Files with a “.jhtml” filename extension contain standard HTML tags in addition to proprietary tags that reference Java objects running on a special server setup to handle requests for pages of this sort. When a request is made for a JHTML page, e.g. […]

HTML element

An HTML element is an individual component of an HTML document. HTML documents are composed of a tree of HTML elements and other nodes, such as text nodes. Each element can have attributes specified. Elements can also have content, including other elements and text. HTML elements representsemantics, or meaning. For example, the title element represents the title of the document. In […]

XML Protocol

The XML Protocol (“XMLP”) is a standard being developed by the W3C XML Protocol Working Group to the following guidelines, outlined in the group’s charter: An envelope for encapsulating XML data to be transferred in an interoperable manner that allows for distributed extensibility. A convention for the content of the envelope when used for RPC (Remote Procedure Call) applications. […]

List of XML markup languages

This is a list of XML markup languages. 0-9 8ML Markup language for financial derivatives A AdsML Markup language used for interchange of data between advertising systems. Agricultural Ontology Service AIML Markup language used for creating artificial intelligence chatterbots. Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML): format for capturing a person’s interests and dislikes Atom (standard): The Atom Syndication […]

XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specificationproduced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards. XML’s design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for the languages of […]

HTML decimal character rendering

A numeric character reference in HTML refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include leading […]

List of document markup languages

Well-known document markup languages HyperText Markup Language (HTML) – the original markup language that was defined as a part of implementing World Wide Web, an ad hoc defined language inspired by the meta format SGML and which inspired many other markup languages. Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML): HTML reformulated in XML syntax. XHTML Basic – a subset […]