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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international body that maintains Web-related rules and frameworks.
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort by the W3C to develop standards and guidelines to help everyone building the web ensure and improve accessibility for people with various challenges.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a recommendation published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) group at the W3C, outlining a set of guidelines for making content accessible primarily for people with disabilities, but also for…
A WeakMap is a collection of key/value pairs whose keys must be objects or non-registered symbols, with values of any arbitrary JavaScript type, and which does not create strong references to its keys.
Parameters: iterable An Array or other iterable object that produces a two-element array-like object whose first element is a value that will be used as a WeakMap key and whose second element is the value to associate with that key.
The delete() method of WeakMap instances removes the entry specified by the key from this WeakMap.
The get() method of WeakMap instances returns the value corresponding to the key in this WeakMap, or undefined if there is none.
The getOrInsert() method of WeakMap instances returns the value corresponding to the specified key in this WeakMap.
The getOrInsertComputed() method of WeakMap instances returns the value corresponding to the specified key in this WeakMap.
The has() method of WeakMap instances returns a boolean indicating whether an entry with the specified key exists in this WeakMap or not.
The set() method of WeakMap instances adds a new entry with a specified key and value to this WeakMap, or updates an existing entry if the key already exists.
A WeakSet is a collection of garbage-collectable values, including objects and non-registered symbols.
Parameters: iterable If an iterable object is passed, all of its elements will be added to the new WeakSet. null is treated as undefined.
The add() method of WeakSet instances inserts the specified value into this set, if it is not already present.
The delete() method of WeakSet instances removes the specified value from this set, if it is in the set.
The has() method of WeakSet instances returns a boolean indicating whether the specified value exists in this WeakSet or not.
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an HTTP Extension that lets web developers update their content remotely from a client.
WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that draws interactive 2D and 3D graphics.
WebIDL is the interface description language used to describe the data types, interfaces, methods, properties, and other components which make up a Web application programming interface (API).
WebKit is a framework that displays properly-formatted webpages based on their markup.
Web performance is the objective time from when a request for content is made until the requested content is displayed in the user's browser, objective render times, and the subjective user experience of load time and runtime.
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an API that can be used by video-chat, voice-calling, and P2P-file-sharing Web apps.
A web server is a piece of software that often runs on a hardware server offering service to a user, usually referred to as the client.
WebSocket is a protocol that allows for a persistent TCP connection between server and client so they can exchange data at any time.
Web standards are rules established by international standards bodies that define how the Web works (and which sometimes control the Internet as well).
WebVTT (Web Video Text Tracks) is a W3C specification for a file format marking up text track resources in combination with the HTML track element.
The white-space CSS shorthand property sets how white space inside an element is handled.
The white-space-collapse CSS property controls how white space inside an element is collapsed.
Whitespace refers to characters which are used to provide horizontal or vertical space between other characters.
The widows CSS property sets the minimum number of lines in a block container that must be shown at the top of a page, region, or column.
The width CSS property sets an element's width.
The will-change CSS property enables optimizing animations by providing a rendering hint to a browser about how an element is expected to change.
The Window interface's matchMedia() method returns a new MediaQueryList object that can then be used to determine if the document matches the media query string, as well as to monitor the document to detect when it matches (or stops matching) that media query.
The window.requestAnimationFrame() method tells the browser you wish to perform an animation.
A WindowProxy object is a wrapper for a Window object.
win_is_writable(): Workaround for Windows bug in is_writable() function PHP has issues with Windows ACL's for determine if a directory is writable or not, this works around them by checking the ability to open files rather than relying upon PHP to interpret the OS ACL.
The word-break CSS property sets whether line breaks appear wherever the text would otherwise overflow its content box.
The word-spacing CSS property sets the spacing between words and between tags.
WordPress is a content management system that uses PHP and a database to manage content, users, themes, and plugins.
An action hook lets WordPress or a plugin announce that an event or lifecycle point has occurred.
An application password is a revocable credential a WordPress user creates for a supported external application.
A block attribute stores a defined piece of a block's data, such as a heading, selected record, or display option.
The WordPress Block Editor builds content from individual blocks such as paragraphs, headings, images and layouts.
A block pattern is a predefined arrangement of blocks that helps an author insert a useful starting layout.
A block theme uses block-based templates and template parts to define frontend layouts.
A capability is a permission WordPress checks before allowing a protected action.
A child theme inherits functionality and presentation from a parent theme while storing selected customizations separately.
A custom field is additional structured information associated with content, commonly stored as post metadata.
A custom post type defines a distinct kind of WordPress content beyond standard posts and pages.
The database prefix is the configured prefix used for a site's WordPress table names.