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IAB Internet Architecture (or Activities) Board - standards etc


IAMT International Association for Machine Translation


IAP Internet Access Provider


ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol (on a level with TCP) - IP's error handling mechanism; reports back error condition.


ICP Independent Content Provider (on the MSN)


ICU ISA Configuration Utility - Intel s/w halfway to PnP


id= in an HTML tag identifies the element and allows scripting languages such as JavaScript to refer to sections of the element - e.g. the value or the innerText.
The same facility may sometimes be (confusingly) provided by name=....


IDAPI Integrated Database API - Borland originated rival to ODBC


IDE C++ Integrated Development Environment - eg. Workbench

IDE Disk: Integrated Drive Electronics - 528Mb max, 2 drives. see
ATA-2.


IDL Interface Definition Language for OLE.


IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table (vectors)


IE (Microsoft) Internet Explorer. Browser with support for JavaScript, XML etc.
- Common IE Errors:
msxml3.dll Access is denied - normally due to:
Tools | Internet Options . . . | Security | Local Intranet | Custom Level . . . |
Download unsigned ActiveX controls not being set to Enable.



IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ISO) - IEEE 802.6 standards for LANs and MANs.


IEN Internet Engineering News - where TCP/IP statndards used to be published.


IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group - IETF executive committee.


IETF Internet Engineering Task Force - volunteer problem solvers. Developed DHCP, etc.


IF Interactive Facsimilies - merged voice + fax over the Internet.


IFRAME - an inline Frame. Usually refers to a frame that does not have a rigid position in the browser window.
The IFRAME element itself may specify what to display if the browser does not support IFRAME, e.g.
    <IFRAME SRC="someother.html" TITLE="Title of this frame">
    <H2>Title of this frame, for older browsers</H2>
    ...
    </IFRAME>


Internet Group Management Protocol (on a level with TCP) - used to combine addresses into groups for multicasts.


IHL Internet Header Length - field in IP datagram header


IIS Internet Information Server (Microsoft) (see ISAPI, CGI, RDS, and Windows Web Services.)


ILS Internet Locator Server - database of on-line Internet users and their email and current TCP/IP addreses. Used by e.g. Microsoft NetMeeting to establish a link between PCs for e.g. videoconferencing.
See NetMeeting Zone for a list of ILS's.


IM Instant Messaging - see e.g. MicroSoft Mesenger.


IMHO in my humble opinion


Indentation with HTML:
Insert non-breaking spaces with &nbsp; (with normal spaces interspersed)
Put <DD/> at the end of the last line (repeated as necessary);
<P STYLE="margin-left:50px"> . . . </P> ( - though this inserts blank lines before and after, it does work with lines that wrap.).
    This line started with "  &nbsp;  &nbsp  "
The previous line ended with <DD/>

The previous line ended with <P STYLE="margin-left:50px">


For lines to wrap and retain the indentation, the <DD/> tags and text must be within a Definitions List (<DL>...</DL>).


Inline Elements - see Block-Level.


innerHTML - in javascript, an HTML element excluding the delimiting tags.
e.g.
<B ID=pain>Ouch!</B> <INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE="Hurt Me Again" OnClick="alert( document.all.pain.innerHTML )">
displays: Ouch!
The innerHTML can also be set. e.g.
<INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE="Change" OnClick="document.all.pain.innerHTML='That was nothing'">
displays:
See outerText   innerText   outerHTML
Note that only innerHTML works in Mozilla based browsers such as Netscape.


innerText - in javascript, the text (without attributes) displayed by an element. See outerText   innerHTML   outerHTML
Note that only innerHTML works in Mozilla based browsers such as Netscape.


Interdev - see Visual InterDev


Intrinsic Event - one of the on... events such as onmouseover="..."


IP Internet Protocol - OSI level 3. Def by ARPA.


IPC Windows: Interprocess Communication


IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol - see RFC 1171 & 1172 - Network Control Protocol for Internet.


IPNG Internet Protocol New Generation - 128 bit Internet adresses.


IPSS International Packet Switching Service - BT service via the PDN.


IPX Internet Packet Exchange: Novell i/f to h/w -superseded by ODI.


IR InfraRed


IRC Internet Relay Chat (eg irc.demon.co.uk)


IRSG Internet Research Steering Group - governs the IRTF.


IRTF Internet Research Task Force - governed by its IRSG.


ISA Industry Standard Architecture - 16-bit AT bus.


ISAPI net: an API designed for the IIS - gives similar functions to CGI


ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network - 64000bps


ISO International Organisation for Standardisation


ISOC Internet Society - IAB reports to this


ISP Internet Service Provider - same as an Access Provider.


ISQL Interactive SQL - a Windows hosted SQL by Watcom - see WSQL


ITU International Telecommunications Union - see DOCSIS


ITU-T International telecomms standards organistion - reps from PTTs.


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