A-Record
This DNS-Record connects a domain, subdomain/s with an IP address of a ressource server. Connected servers may serve as Mail Sever, Web Hosting Server and / or many other services.Angular
Angular is a frontend web development framework based on TypeScript. It is an Open Source product developed by a community of companies and other volunteers led by Google.
API
Application Programming Interfaces are software parts that allow external applications to access specific content of the software. The exchanched data is usually transmitted in a standarized format such as XML or JSON.
Browser
(Internet-) Browsers are applications for displaying websites, web applications or other HTTP ressources. A ressource can be accessed by entering an URL or IP address into the address field of the application. The best known browsers are Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
Charset
A charset is a collection of alphanumeric and special characters and sometimes pictograms. The characters are numbered mostly in a standardized order.
CMS
Content Management Systems are applications which simplify the creating and maintaining of publications like websites. WordPress is one of the best known and commonly used Open Source CMS there is.
CNAME
CNAME stands for Canonical-Name and is a type of DNS-Record. A CNAME allows a domain or subdomain to inherit the DNS-configuration of another domain or subdomain. It is commonly used for domain aliases.
Cookie
Browser Cookies are small pieces of data used in web browsers. They mostly contain data about the user of a website or web application. Such cookies can be set by webservers itselfs or by JavaScript. Cookies are sent by every HTTP Request, which means they can always be accessed by the webserver which provides the website that uses the cookies. A common use of Cookies is to store athentication information.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are usually used for styling Markups such as HTML and XML. It has a very basic syntax containing a selector and a body. Styling information for the selected elements are located within the body as key – value pairs. CSS can be writting directly into the markup as tag Attribute or between the html style tag or it can be located in an external .css ressource file. You can manipulate the CSS rules of specific elements via JavaScript.
Digest Authentication
This authentication method is used to authenticate a user for accessing a web server before sending any sensitive data. The username and password are hashed before they are sent.
DNS
The Domain Name System connects domains and subdomains with servers (e.g. via IP address). Such DNS zones are usually located on a nameserver and consist of DNS-Records. DNS servers can contain multiple DNS zones (one per domain) with as many DNS-Records as needed for a specific domain and / or its subdomains.
DNS Record
A DNS-Record is a small unit of a DNS-Zone which defines a specific behavior of a single domain or a subdomain. There are various types of DNS-Records, such as A-Records, TXT-Records or MX-Records, each of them serving certain purposes.
DOM
The Document Object Model is an interface between HTML and JavaScript. Each element of a HTML document is represented as JavaScript Object within the DOM and can be accessed and manipulated.
Domain
A Domain is a subarea of the Domain Name System. When we speak of domains we usually mean second level Domains which are subdomains of top-level domains like .com or .net. Domains are world wide unique (Still you can define your own domains within your own LAN, which are not accessable via the internet). They consist of string containing alphanumeric characters and a limitted range of special characters.
ECMAScript
EcmaScript is a standard for web based object oriented scripting (programmig) languages such as JavaScript or Action Script. It was originally created for standardize JavaScript implementations accross different browsers.