1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or
	hardware works (that is, who {groks} it); especially someone
	who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency.  Someone is
	a {hacker} if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a
	wizard with respect to something only if he or she has
	specific detailed knowledge of that thing.  A good hacker
	could become a wizard for something given the time to study
	it.

	2. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to
	ordinary people; one who has {wheel} privileges on a system.

	3. A Unix expert, especially a Unix systems programmer.  This
	usage is well enough established that "Unix Wizard" is a
	recognised job title at some corporations and to most
	headhunters.

	See {guru}, {lord high fixer}.  See also {deep magic}, {heavy
	wizardry}, {incantation}, {magic}, {mutter}, {rain dance},
	{voodoo programming}, {wave a dead chicken}.

	4. An interactive help utility that guides the user through a
	potentially complex task, such as configuring a {PPP} driver
	to work with a new {modem}.  Wizards are often implemented as
	a sequence of {dialog boxes} which the user can move forward
	and backward through, filling in the details required.  The
	implication is that the expertise of a human wizard in one of
	the above senses is encapsulated in the software wizard,
	allowing the average user to perform expertly.

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1998-09-07)

<hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard> (HTML) A {hypertext}
	document format used on the {World-Wide Web}.  HTML is built
	on top of {SGML}.  "Tags" are embedded in the text.  A tag
	consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or
	more parameters and a ">".  Matched pairs of directives, like
	"<title>" and "</title>" are used to delimit text which is to
	appear in a special place or style.

	Links to other documents are in the form

	 <a href="http://machine.edu/subdir/file.html">foo</a>

	where "<a>" and "</a>" delimit an "anchor", "href" introduces
	a hypertext reference, which is most often a {Uniform Resource
	Locator} (URL) (the string in double quotes in the example
	above).  The link will be represented in the browser by the
	text "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a different
	colour).

	A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a
	named anchor, e.g.:

	 <a name="baz">

	The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an href by
	appending "#baz" to the document name.

	Other common tags include <p> for a new paragraph, <b>..</b>
	for bold text, <ul> for an unnumbered list, <pre> for
	preformated text, <h1>, <h2> .. <h6> for headings.

	{HTML} supports some standard {SGML} {national characters} and
	other non-{ASCII} characters through special {escape
	sequences}, e.g. "&eacute;" for a lower case 'e' with an acute
	accent.  You can sometimes get away without the terminating
	semicolon but it's bad style.

	Most systems will ignore the case of tags and attributes but
	lower case should be used for compatibility with {XHTML}.

	The {World-Wide Web Consortium} (W3C) is the international
	{standards} body for HTML.

	Latest version: {XHTML} 1.0, as of 2000-09-10.

	{Home (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/)}.

	{Character escape sequences
	(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/ISOlat1.html)}.

	See also {weblint}.

	(2006-01-19)

1. <storage> Integrated Drive Electronics, see {Advanced
	Technology Attachment}.

	2. <programming, tool> {integrated development environment}.

	3. <company> {Interactive Development Environments}.

	(2002-04-14)