- W3C
- WebBrowser control
The WebBrowser control adds browsing, document viewing, and data downloading capabilities to applications. By using this control, applications allow the user to browse Web sites as well as folders in a local file system and on a network. Both point-and-click hyperlinking and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) navigation support Web browsing. The WebBrowser control directly handles the navigation, hyperlinking, history lists, favorites, and security. The actual parsing and rendering of the HTML documents in the WebBrowser is handled by the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 component, MSHTML.dll.
- Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT)
- Weblication
A Weblication, Web application, or Web-enabled application is the result of Windows applications becoming more Web-enabled through their use of HTML, DHTML, and other Web-based technologies. By blending the networked capabilities of the Web with traditional desktop Windows applications, Weblications free users to think more about the information they are viewing or authoring and less on the documents and file locations. Weblications also allow users to perform tasks without consciously launching an application tailored to each task.
- Web session
Web session defines a period of time in which a user's browser is requesting information from a Web server. Because HTTP is a stateless protocol, it does not provide a mechanism to maintain state information between requests from a browser. Using
ASP technology, developers have been able to devise the session object, which provides consistent user sessions on the Web.
- WEFT
- WFC
- Win32 Internet API (WinINET)
WinINET is an application programming interface (i.e., a set of functions) that enables developers to interact with standard Internet protocols, such as Gopher, FTP, and HTTP. WinINET allows applications to act as a Gopher, FTP, or HTTP client without the developer having to keep up with the ever-changing protocol standards. In addition, WinINET can be used to write an almost endless list of applications, some of which include product-ordering systems, stock tickers/analyzers, online banking systems, FTP clients, and so forth. WinINET allows applications the ability to host Internet sessions.
- Windows Foundation Classes (WFC)
WFC is an object-oriented framework that provides a rich encapsulation of the Win32 application-programming interface (API). Constructed on the J/Direct API, WFC makes it possible to rapidly write full-featured applications for Windows by providing an architecture and set of prebuilt components. In addition, WFC allows developers to build thin-client Web applications using client- and server-based Java classes that generate Dynamic HTML on the fly.
- Windows Sockets (WinSock)
WinSock provides a single interface in Microsoft Windows to which multiple network software programs conform. WinSock is typically available in a dynamic-link library (DLL) named winsock.dll. This application-programming interface communicates on one side with network programs, and on the other side with the TCP/IP protocol to facilitate Internet communications.
- WinINET
- WinSock
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The
W3C was founded in 1994 to develop common standards and protocols for the World Wide Web. Jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) in the United States, the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Asia, and the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Europe, the W3C is a vendor neutral international industry consortium. Working with its staff and the global Web community, the W3C produces free, interoperable specifications and sample code, along with reference materials for the World Wide Web. The
W3C Web site 
has more information.
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