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namespace-well-formed

From Namespaces in XML 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source

A document is namespace-well-formed if it conforms to this specification.
natural language

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

Natural language is spoken, written, or signed human language such as French, Japanese, and American Sign Language. On the Web, the natural language of content may be specified by markup or HTTP headers. Some examples include the lang attribute in HTML 4 ([HTML4] section 8.1), the xml:lang attribute in XML 1.0 ([XML], section 2.12), the hreflang attribute for links in HTML 4 ([HTML4], section 12.1.5), the HTTP Content-Language header ([RFC2616], section 14.12) and the Accept-Language request header ([RFC2616], section 14.4). See also the definition of script.
natural language

From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05) | Glossary for this source

Spoken, written, or signed human languages such as French, Japanese, American Sign Language, and braille. The natural language of content may be indicated with the "lang" attribute in HTML ([HTML40], section 8.1) and the "xml:lang" attribute in XML ([XML], section 2.12).
navigation

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An activity, based on a mechanism provided by an active perceivable unit, by which a user can alter their focus of attention. If the new focus of attention is in a different perceivable unit, that unit becomes an active perceivable unit.
One common form of this kind of mechanism is the link, a region within an active perceivable unit which can be activated by a suitable user action.
navigation

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

The process of moving from one node to another through the hypertext web . This is normally done by following links . Various features of a particular browser may make this easier. These include keeping a history of where the user has been, and drawing diagrams of links between nearby nodes. (More...)
navigation bars

From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05) | Glossary for this source

A navigation bar is a collection of links to the most important parts of a document or site.
navigation mechanism

From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05) | Glossary for this source

A navigation mechanism is any means by which a user can navigate a page or site. Some typical mechanisms include:navigation barsA navigation bar is a collection of links to the most important parts of a document or site.site mapsA site map provides a global view of the organization of a page or site.tables of contentsA table of contents generally lists (and links to) the most important sections of a document.
NCSA (National center for supercomputing applications)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign whose software development group created Mosaic .
negotiate content

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

Message content that has been selected by content negotiation.
negotiation metadata

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

Information which is exchanged between the sender and the receiver of a message by content negotiation in order to determine the variant which should be transferred.
nelson, ted

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Coiner of the word hypertext; guru and visionary. By coincidence, Ted is currently (1999) at Keio University
net

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Short for Internet .
network byte order

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

byte order in which the most significant byte comes first, then the less significant bytes in descending order of significance ( MSB LSB for two-byte integers, MSB B2 B1 LSB for four-byte integers).
new

From XML Linking Language (XLink) (2001-06-27) | Glossary for this source

An application traversing to the ending resource should load it in a new window, frame, pane, or other relevant presentation context. This is similar to the effect achieved by the following HTML fragment:<A HREF="http://www.example.org" target="_blank">...</A>
neXT

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Name of the company started by Steve Jobs, and of the computer it manufactured, that integrated many novelties such as the Mach kernel, Unix, NeXTStep, Objective-C, drag-and-drop application builders, optical disks, and digital signal processors. The development platform I used for the first Web client.
NNTP (Network news transfer protocol)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A protocol that defines how news articles are passed around between computers. Each computer passes an article to any of its neighbors that have not yet got it.
node

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Thing joined by links. In the Web, a node is a Web page, any resource with a URI.
node

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A node is an instance of one of the node kinds defined in .
node

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A node is an instance of one of the node kinds defined in .
node

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

A unit of information. Also known as a frame (KMS), card (Hypercard, Notecards). Used with this special meaning in hypertext circles: do not confuse with "node" meaning "network host". For user's benefits, we use the term " document " as this is the nearest term outside the hypertext world.

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