Glossary

$

A JavaScript variable, defined by jQuery as a synonym for the jQuery object.

ActiveX

A Microsoft framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way.

Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A web development technique to send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.

API

Application Programming Interface. A protocol intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.

Assertion

A statement of an expected result in a unit test.

Base62 encoding

An encoding scheme that represents strings of characters as numbers in a base 62 sequence, using the characters ...

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