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Enabled element | A piece of content with associated behaviors that can be activated through the user interface or through an API. The set of elements that a user agent enables is generally derived from, but is not limited to, the set of interactive elements defined by implemented markup languages
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Element | A syntactic construct of a document type definition (DTD) for its application. |
Documentation | Information that supports the use of a user agent. |
Document source, | The data that the user agent receives as the direct result of a request for a Web resource (e.g., as the result of an HTTP/1.1 [RFC2616] "GET", or as the result of viewing a resource on the local file system). |
Document object | The user agent's representation of data (e.g., a document). This data generally comes from the document source, but may also be generated (e.g., from style sheets, scripts, or transformations), produced as a result of preferences set within the user agent, or added as the result of a repair performed automatically by the user agent. |
Document character set | A collection of abstract characters that a format specification allows to appear in an instance of the format. |
Device-independence | The desirable property that operation of a user agent feature is not bound to only one input or output device. |
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Conformance | Satisfying all the requirements of a given standard, guideline or specification |
Configure | "To control" and "to configure" share in common the idea of governance such as a user may exercise over interface layout, user agent behavior, rendering style, and other parameters. |
Conditional content | Content that, by format specification, should be made available to users through the user interface, generally under certain conditions (e.g., based on user preferences or operating environment limitations)
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Collated text transcript | A text equivalent of a movie or other animation. |
Character encoding | A mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data. |
Captions | Text transcripts that are synchronized with other audio tracks or visual tracks. |
Blocks of text | More than one sentence of text |