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Accessibility
Web accessibility refers to the practice of making pages on the Internet accessible to all users, especially those with disabilities.
AFNIC
AFNIC is the registry for the Internet domain names .fr and .re
AGESSA
French association in charge of authors social security.
AJAX
A scripting technique for silently loading new data from the server. Although AJAX scripts commonly use the soon to be standardized XMLHttpRequest object, they could also use a hidden iframe or frame. An AJAX script is useless by itself. It also requires a DOM Scripting component to embed the received data in the document.
Appletalk
A networking protocol developed by Apple Computer for communication between Apple Computer products and other computers.
ASP
Active Server Page, Microsoft's technology which permits dynamic web pages creation
Citrix Presentation Server ou Citrix Metaframe
Citrix Presentation Server (formerly Citrix MetaFrame Server) is a remote access/application publishing product that allows people to connect to applications available from central servers. One advantage of publishing applications using Presentation Server is that it lets people connect to these applications remotely, from their homes, airport Internet kiosks, smart phones, and other devices outside of their corporate networks.
CNIL
Independent French administrative authority whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data.
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are used to describe presentation of a structured document in HTML, XHTML or XML.
Datamatrix
Two-dimensional matrix barcode consisting of black and white square modules arranged in either a square or rectangular pattern. The information to be encoded can be text or raw data.
DAVDSI
Bill reforming French copyright law, mostly in order to implement the 2001 European directive on copyright (known as EUCD), which in turn implements a 1996 WIPO treaty.
Ergonomics
Ergonomics is the study of optimizing the interface between human beings, and the designed objects and environments they interact with.
FTP
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network. Specifically, FTP is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). There are two computers involved in an FTP transfer: a server and a client.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating World Wide Web pages.
IANA
entity that oversees global IP address allocation, DNS root zone management, and other Internet protocol assignments. It is operated by ICANN.
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Manage the assignment of domain names and IP addresses.
Javascript
A scripting language produced by Netscape for use within HTML Web pages.
LCEN ou LEN
French bill about e-business.
Maison des artistes
French association in charge of artists social security.

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Present definitions are extracted (for some part) from the Wikipedia encyclopedia.