Application Service Provider. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) who also sells application software that runs behind the web servers at he hosting service. ISPs provide minimal applications like emai [..]

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese. In general, the DBCS Asian languages. CSS

Double Byte Character Set. Multi-byte encodings for Asian languages. Multi-byte encoding does not use 8-bit bytes that conflict with existing 8-bit ASCII characters (thus severely limiting the number [..]

Do Not Translate. A special term list of words and phrases such as company trademarks that remain the same in all languages. DTD

Desktop Publishing. Formatting a document on a computer screen with an accurate representation of the printed version. See WYSIWYG. FIGS

Graphical Interface Format. The most widely used standard for web graphics, developed by Unisys and owned by Compuserve. Best suited for artificial images such as computer-generated art. Alternatives [..]

Hypertext Markup Language. The language of the world wide web. Surprisingly easy to learn the basic features, HTML is an essential study for translators hoping to move their work to the web. You must [..]

Joint Photographic Experts Group. The second most popular standard for compression of web graphics. Best suited for natural images. See GIF. Markup

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Portable Document Format. An Adobe PostScript standard file format that is very popular on the web because it preserves the graphical look of a document, unlike HTML, which adapts itself to different [..]