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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