Letter: E
EARN
(European Academic and Research Network) The European equivalent to BITNET.
eBusiness
(eMail, eCommerce, eZine, eSolution, eMarket, eService, etc.) The "e" originally stood for "electronic", as in "online". Today the term is used rather freely to describe any situation or solution that has made the migration from real world to the Internet.
EFF
(Electronic Frontier Foundation) A nonprofit organization concerned with Internet-related privacy and access issues
electronic mail
e-mail or E-mail) Online communications between computer users. The most frequently used communications tool on the Internet. E-mail allows you to communicate with one or thousands of users in less time and for less money than it takes to communicate with another person via traditional phone or mail services.
E-mail
Electronic Mail) -- Messages, usually text, sent from one person to another via computer. E-mail can also be sent automatically to a large number of addresses (Mailing List).
Embedded Media
These are the types of media you can include in an HTML page, such as RealAudio files or GIF animations. But like a fruitcake embedded with mysterious kernels of green gelatin, embedded media often made early Web browsers choke. Later versions of browsers, however, are more sophisticated and contend with non-ASCII information with the help of MIME types. Defined in 1992 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), multipurpose Internet mail extensions, or MIME types, are a specification for formatting non-ASCII messages so that they can be sent over the Internet. When a browser comes across a file in an HTML document with a MIME extension (like .gif), the browser knows to display that file as an image. Many email clients also support MIME, enabling them to send and receive embedded media via the Internet mail system.
emoticons
(see Unofficial Smiley Dictionary, under IRC)
Encryption
Encryption is a form of cryptography that uses a mathematical algorithm to scramble data for security purposes. Encrypted data is generated by algorithms stored in keys. The keys are kept by the sending and receiving parties in any encrypted transmission. An encrypted message is impossible to read without access to the correct key. There are many different flavors of algorithmic encryption, including Blowfish, TEA, and PGP.
Ethernet
A very common method of networking computers in a LAN. Ethernet will handle about 10,000,000 bits-per-second and can be used with almost any kind of computer.
Event
In the good ol' days, computers handled user interactions as input of batched data. The user fed a hunk of data in, the computer did something to that data, then produced the results. With the advent of interactive devices like the GUI interface, computers could display answers to computations onscreen. The input for these interactions are events caused by the user, which could be keystrokes, button clicks, or the position of the mouse pointer.
(see Event Handler).
Event Handler
Event handlers are functions that handle client-side events. Commonly used JavaScript event handlers include onClick, onMouseOver, and onLoad. When one of these events occurs - the user clicks on a link, for example - the event handler for that event will be executed.
Expression
In JavaScript, expressions are phrases that the interpreter can evaluate. For example, x + 10 and x < 10 are expressions since they can be evaluated, while x = 10 is simply a statement. In linguistical terms, JavaScript is made up of sentences, phrases, and words. The sentences are JavaScript statements, in which an entire action is expressed. The phrases are JavaScript expressions, in which the elements of the action can be created and put together to make a statement. The words are JavaScript operators, which are used to act upon the data passed to them.
extranet
(compare Internet and intranet) An extended intranet connecting not only internal personnel, but also select customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.
Eyeballs
The term "eyeballs" is a quaint reference to the number of people who see, or "lay their eyes on," a certain advertisement. When buying radio time, marketers refer to "ears" instead of "eyeballs
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