Jargon Abbreviations, Acronyms
TabIndex, and AccessKey

Option to use the IE ACRONYM command
Users of IE4 or 5 Internet Explorer browser versions 4 or 5 have a way of helping readers to understand the acronyms as they get to them. The letters IE4 or 5 in this paragraph, and in the lists below, if you allow your mouse pointer to dwell on the acronym the meaning will be displayed. I fear this is only a gimmick; at least 29% of your e-visitors who use earlier versions, or use NS, will not get any reaction, so you can also spell it out in text if it is very important. But for the record, the HTML statement looks like this:

<ACRONYM TITLE="Internet Explorer v4 or 5">IE4 or 5</ACRONYM>

<A ACCESSKEY="g">Go to homepage</A>

  A more obscure IE item - TabIndex
You can put a tabindex=1 sequence clause against any statement. Then when the surfer presses TAB the link will be positioned and highlighted. But it only works the first time, then TAB goes to each link in turn as normal. Also the page is not positioned so that you can read the item; you have scroll to find the place to start reading. Perhaps it will become more useful in later browser versions. This page has this feature installed, for what it is worth.

  Some Acronyms
Some of the common abbreviations are listed here (and you may be none the wiser but you did ask!) :

• ASCII American Standard Computer Interchange Code
• CGI Common Gateway Interface   MORE
• FTP File Transfer Protocol
• HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
• IE Internet Explorer browser
• IP address - the quad-numeric internet address
• IAP Internet Access Provider   MORE
• ISP Internet Service Provider   MORE
• Mac Macintosh computer
• META the statements on a webpage to help search engines
• NS Netscape browser
• PC Personal Computer (IBM compatible)
• PC Politically Correct
• RAM Random Access Memory in a PC
• SSI Server Side Includes   MORE
• SOP Standard Operating Procedure - ex US military, normally derogatory
• URL Universal Resource Locator (an internet address)
• WWW World Wide Web - used to show that what follows is a domain name.

  There are also some common acronyms used by the lazy or seeking to confuse. This is NetSpeak, or CyberPatois. It is not compulsory.

• BTW By The Way
• BRB Be Right Back
• BFN Bye For Now
• FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
• IMHO In My Humble Opinion
• LART Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool (a.k.a. Baseball Bat)
• LOL Lot of Laughs
• OTOH On The Other Hand
• OTT Over The Top
• PITA or
• PITB Pain In The Acronym
• PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
• RSN Real Soon Now (like next year ..)
• RTFM Read The Flipping Manual
• ROFL Rolling on the Floor Laughing
• TIA Thanks in Advance
• TLA Three letter acronym
• TINSTAAFL There is no such thing as a free lunch
• WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

 
  Jargon
http://www.jargon.org/ - the complete and probably most accurate dictionary of Internet Jargon.
http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/ - records and explains 18,000 sets of initials