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Arpoon
Well, it's the name of this site.dd>
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language as specified by the W3C
CSS
Cascading Style Sheet as specified by the W3C
XML
Extensible Markup Language as specified by the W3C
WCAG
Web content accessibility guidelines as specified by the W3C
Section 508
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
Object Pascal
An object oriented derivative of the Pascal programming language
Firebird
A completely free relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms.
Checksum
A particular type of redundancy check, used to protect the integrity of data.
MD2, MD4, MD5
Message Digest Algorithm 2, 4 and 5
Adler
A cyclic redundancy checksum algorithm which was invented by Mark Adler.
CRC32
Cyclic redundancy check 32 bits
SHA1
Secure Hash Algorithm One 160 bits
RIPE-160 (RIPEMD-160)
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest 160 bits
SHA256
Secure Hash Algorithm 256 bits
ELF
UNIX Executable and Linkable Format Hash Algorithm
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier

Some needfull links... maybe?

Please have a look at my private homepage: there you'll find some links related to:

  • Object Pascal programming (Delphi)
  • Firebird database
  • XHTML and CSS programming
  • Some more stuff I'm whiling away time with...

Compliance

Guidelines

The Arpoon website has been designed to comply with web accessibility guidelines such as defined by the WCAG, BITV and the W3C-WAI.

Procedure

Indeed, it's not a trivial task to comply with such guidelines. Thus, at the very first, you have to define the scope of compliance you wish to undertake and to specify the technology to implement it. There's no warranty that such compliance goals may be fully attained, though this website has been implemented methodicaly and with great care, passing a lot of tests with success.

On this account, this website has been implemented in respect of the following principles:

  • Usage of pure XHTML and CSS code
  • No script, no code hack, no flash
  • Fully scalable, light weighted layout
  • Compatibility with most of actual web browser

Resulting compliance level

This website should succesfully pass (at least most parts of) the following compliance tests:

Acknowledgment

My special thanks for technical support as well as for decisive sources of inspiration go to:


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