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  2. Markdown - Wikipedia

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    Markdown [9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004, in collaboration with Aaron Swartz, [10] [11] as a markup language that is intended to be easy to read in its source code form. [9] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used ...

  3. Boilerplate code - Wikipedia

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    Scaffold (programming) – Code generation technique or a project generation technique; Snippet (programming) – Small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text; Template processor – Software designed to combine templates with a data model to produce result documents; Web template system – System in web publishing

  4. Dynamic HTML - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a term which was used by some browser vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and client-side scripts ( JavaScript, VBScript, or any other supported scripts) that enabled the creation of interactive and animated documents. [1] [2] The application of DHTML was introduced by Microsoft with the release ...

  5. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...

  6. Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, [note 1] is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text written in all of the world's major writing systems. Version 15.1 of the standard [A] defines 149 813 characters [3] and 161 scripts used in various ordinary, literary, academic, and technical ...

  7. Text editor - Wikipedia

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    Emacs, a text editor popular among programmers, running on Microsoft Windows. gedit is a text editor shipped with GNOME. Some text editors are small and simple, while others offer broad and complex functions. For example, Unix and Unix-like operating systems have the pico editor (or a variant), but many also include the vi and Emacs editors.

  8. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    UTF-8. UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. [1] UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 [a] valid Unicode code points using one to four one- byte (8-bit) code units.

  9. HTML element - Wikipedia

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    An HTML document is composed of a tree of simple HTML nodes, such as text nodes, and HTML elements, which add semantics and formatting to parts of document (e.g., make text bold, organize it into paragraphs, lists and tables, or embed hyperlinks and images). Each element can have HTML attributes specified. Elements can also have content ...