Terms starting with S

13 terms in Web

  • Same-origin policy

    Web › Browser technologies

    The same-origin policy is the browser security rule that stops scripts from one origin reading data from another unless that origin permits…

  • Selenium

    Web › Web testing

    Selenium is an open-source framework for automating web browsers through the WebDriver protocol, widely used for cross-browser web testing.

  • Semantic HTML

    Web › HTML

    Semantic HTML is the practice of marking up web content with elements that describe its meaning, improving accessibility, SEO and maintainability.

  • Semantic structure

    Web › Web accessibility

    Semantic structure is the use of meaningful HTML elements, headings and landmarks so assistive technologies can understand and navigate a web page.

  • Server-sent events

    Web › Web APIs

    Server-sent events are a web API that lets a server push a continuous stream of text messages to the browser over one…

  • Service worker

    Web › Browser JavaScript

    A service worker is a background script in browser JavaScript that intercepts network requests, enabling offline pages, caching and push messages.

  • Skip link

    Web › Web accessibility

    A skip link is an in-page link at the start of a web page that lets keyboard and screen reader users jump…

  • SPA

    Web › Web applications

    An SPA (single-page application) is a web application that loads one HTML document and updates its views with JavaScript instead of full…

  • Specificity

    Web › CSS

    Specificity in CSS is the weight a browser computes for each selector to decide which conflicting declaration applies to an element.

  • Speed Index

    Web › Web performance

    Speed Index is a lab metric in web performance that measures how quickly the visible content of a page is painted during…

  • SSG

    Web › Web applications

    SSG, or static site generation, builds every page of a web application into ready HTML files at build time instead of rendering…

  • SSR

    Web › Web applications

    SSR (server-side rendering) generates the HTML of a web application on the server for each request, so pages arrive ready to display.

  • Static asset

    Web › Web architecture

    A static asset in web architecture is a file such as an image, stylesheet, script or font that is served unchanged to…