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Glossary

Arpoon

Well, it's the name of this site.dd>

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

XHTML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language as specified by the W3C

CSS

Cascading Style Sheet as specified by the W3C

XML

Extensible Markup Language as specified by the W3C

WCAG

Web content accessibility guidelines as specified by the W3C

Section 508

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

Object Pascal

An object oriented derivative of the Pascal programming language

Firebird

A completely free relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms.

Checksum

A particular type of redundancy check, used to protect the integrity of data.

MD2, MD4, MD5

Message Digest Algorithm 2, 4 and 5

Adler

A cyclic redundancy checksum algorithm which was invented by Mark Adler.

CRC32

Cyclic redundancy check 32 bits

SHA1

Secure Hash Algorithm One 160 bits

RIPE-160 (RIPEMD-160)

RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest 160 bits

SHA256

Secure Hash Algorithm 256 bits

ELF

UNIX Executable and Linkable Format Hash Algorithm

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

Some needfull links... maybe?

Please have a look at my private homepage: there you'll find some links related to:

• Object Pascal programming (Delphi)
• Firebird database
• XHTML and CSS programming
• Some more stuff I'm whiling away time with...

Compliance

Guidelines

The Arpoon website has been designed to comply with web accessibility guidelines such as defined by the WCAG, BITV and the W3C-WAI.

Procedure

Indeed, it's not a trivial task to comply with such guidelines. Thus, at the very first, you have to define the scope of compliance you wish to undertake and to specify the technology to implement it. There's no warranty that such compliance goals may be fully attained, though this website has been implemented methodicaly and with great care, passing a lot of tests with success.

On this account, this website has been implemented in respect of the following principles:

• Usage of pure XHTML and CSS code
• No script, no code hack, no flash
• Fully scalable, light weighted layout
• Compatibility with most of actual web browser

Resulting compliance level

This website should succesfully pass (at least most parts of) the following compliance tests:

• W3C Markup Validation Service: validator test
• W3C CSS-Validator Service: Jigsaw test
• W3C-WCAG: Accessibility report
• Schneegans XML Schema Validator: validation result
• TAW 3.0: accessibility report
• Truwex's Section 508 and WCAG Accessibility Test: page check.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks for technical support as well as for decisive sources of inspiration go to:

• Stuart Nicholls and his incredible "CSS Play".
• All members of Dirk's (X)HTML-Forum.
• The cutting-edge CSS Zen Garden team.
• My insightful and empathetic girlfriend !