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Web Speech API
The Web Speech API is a JavaScript API developed at W3C, first specified in 2012, that lets web pages incorporate speech recognition and speech synthesis under script control.
Web standards
Web standards are the technical specifications published by international standards bodies such as the W3C, WHATWG, IETF, and Ecma International that define how the World Wide Web works.
Web Storage
Web Storage is a browser API, standardized in the WHATWG HTML Standard, providing two client-side mechanisms for storing name-value pairs: persistent localStorage and per-tab sessionStorage.
Web survey
A web survey is a self-administered questionnaire completed in an internet browser with no interviewer, emerging in the mid-1990s and becoming the dominant survey mode by the mid-2010s.
Web Therapy
Web Therapy is an American improvised comedy created by Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky, and Don Roos, starring Kudrow as therapist Fiona Wallice, who holds three-minute webcam sessions. Launched 2008 on Lexus's LStudio.com, adapted for Showtime 2011-2015, first web series to reach premium cable.
Web traffic
Web traffic, also called website traffic, is the flow of data between web servers and requesting clients, carried almost entirely by HTTP and measured in requests, bytes, or visits.
Web Workers
Web Workers are a browser API, defined in the WHATWG HTML Standard, that run scripts in background threads so long tasks do not block the page's main thread.
Web-based experiment
A web-based experiment is a controlled experiment in which participants recruit themselves online, are assigned to conditions by software, and complete tasks in a web browser, first reported in 1996.
Web-based simulation
Web-based simulation is the practice of building, delivering, and running computational simulations through web browsers, which play an active role in modeling, execution, or visualization, removing installation and enabling collaboration.
Web3
Web3, also known as Web 3.0, is a proposed decentralized internet built on blockchains and cryptocurrencies, where users own their data, a term coined by Gavin Wood in 2014.
WebArena
WebArena is a self-hosted benchmark for autonomous web-browsing agents, built at Carnegie Mellon University and posted in 2023, with 812 long-horizon tasks on cloned websites scored by actual task completion.
WebAssembly
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary bytecode format and open W3C standard that lets code from languages like C++ and Rust run at near-native speed in browsers.
WebAssembly System Interface
The WebAssembly System Interface, or WASI, is a group of standard APIs giving WebAssembly software a secure interface for running anywhere, from browsers to clouds to embedded devices.
WebAuthn
WebAuthn (Web Authentication) is a W3C standard, developed with the FIDO Alliance, that lets websites authenticate users with public-key credentials instead of passwords, making sign-in phishing-resistant.
Webb County
Webb County, Texas: South Texas border county on the Rio Grande, seat Laredo, founded 1848, named for Judge James Webb; 267,114 residents (2020), 94.7% Hispanic, sixth-largest Texas county by area.
Webb Hayes
Webb Cook Hayes (James Webb Cook Hayes, 1856-1934), second son of President Rutherford B. Hayes: businessman, co-founder of a Union Carbide forerunner, Spanish-American War and Philippines officer, Medal of Honor recipient for the 1899 rescue at Vigan.
Webb Institute
Webb Institute is a private Glen Cove, New York college founded in 1889 by William H. Webb, offering only a dual BS in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering with full-tuition scholarships for US students and required winter internships.
Webb Simpson
Webb Simpson (James Frederick Webb Simpson), American pro golfer, 2012 U.S. Open champion and 2018 Players winner, seven PGA Tour titles, Wake Forest alumnus, later LIV Golf member and US team vice-captain.
Webb's First Deep Field
Webb's First Deep Field is the first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope, a 2022 view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 showing thousands of distant galaxies.
Webbed fingers
Webbed fingers, medically syndactyly of the hand (ICD-11 LB79.1), is a congenital fusion of adjacent digits by skin or bone, occurring in about 2–3 per 10,000 births, usually autosomal dominant, and treated by surgical separation around age one.
Webbed neck
Webbed neck (pterygium colli, ICD-11 LA60) is a congenital bilateral skin fold from mastoid to acromion, mainly in Turner and Noonan syndromes, corrected surgically by Z-plasty and other flap techniques.
Webbed penis
Webbed penis, or penoscrotal webbing (PSW), is a congenital or post-circumcision skin fold obscuring the penoscrotal angle; graded 1-3 by El-Koutby, treated by scrotoplasty.
Webbed toes
Webbed toes, the toe form of syndactyly, are digits fused by skin or bone, occurring in about 1 in 2,000 to 2,500 births, most often between the 2nd and 3rd toes, often hereditary, and treated by surgical separation with flaps and grafts.
Webbie
Webbie (Webster Gradney, Jr., born 1985) is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper on Trill Entertainment, known for the Savage Life album series and hits "Give Me That" and "Independent".
Webcam
A webcam, also called a web camera, is a compact digital video camera connected to a computer or phone for video calls, streaming, and simple photography.
Webcam model
Webcam model: a live-streaming performer, also called camming or webcamming, a form of internet-based sex work earning tips and private-show fees. Key facts: $5 billion industry, 25-65% platform cuts, uneven earnings, studio vs independent work.
Webcomic
A webcomic is an internet cartoon designed for digital screens, with the mobile format now reaching approximately 155 million global users. The South Korean webtoon era is a key part of this growth.
WebDAV
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of HTTP extensions that let clients create, copy, move, and lock files on a web server.
Webdriver Torso
Webdriver Torso is a YouTube channel that uploads clips of moving red and blue rectangles with sine wave tones to test YouTube's upload and playback quality, acknowledged by Google in June 2014.
Webensenu
Webensenu, also written Websenu, was a prince of Egypt's Dynasty 18 and a son of the pharaoh Amenhotep II, known from funerary equipment in tomb KV35.