403. User Applications, also known as application software, software applications, applications or apps, are computer software components designed to help a user perform singular or multiple related tasks and provide the logical interface between human and automated activities.
| Purpose | Standard | Guidance |
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| Displaying content within web browsers. | W3C Hypertext Markup Language HTML 4.0.1 | Applications must support the following browsers: Microsoft |
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W3C Extensible Hypertext Markup Language XHTML 1.0 W3C Cascading Style Sheets CSS 2.0 |
Internet Explorer v7.0 and newer, and Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and newer. When a supported browser is not true to the standard, choose to support the browser | |
| Browser plug-ins. | Browser plug-ins are not covered by a single specification. | Some CEMN members do not allow the use of ActiveX controls in the browser. Use of browser plug-ins should be minimized. |
| Visualize common operational symbology within C4ISR systems in order to convey information about objects in the battlespace. |
STANAG 2019, Ed.5:2008, Joint Symbology- APP-6(B) U.S. MIL-STD 2525 B Change 2, Common Warfighting Symbology TIDE Transformational Baseline Vers. 3-0, NATO Vector Graphics (NVG) Mandatory: NVG 1.5 Fading (Dec 2011): NVG 1.4 Retired: NVG 0.3 |
All presentation service shall render tracks, tactical graphics, and MOOTW objects using this standard except in the case where the object being rendered is not covered in the standard. In these exceptional cases, additional symbols shall be defined as extensions of existing symbols and must be backwards compatible. These extensions shall be submitted as a change proposal within the configuration control process to be considered for inclusion in the next version of the specification. |
| Reliable messaging over XMPP |
XMPP Clients must implement the following XMPP protocol extensions XEP-0184 for message receipts, whereby the sender of a message can request notification that it has been received by the intended recipient, and XEP 0202 for communicating the local time of an entity. |
All XMPP Chat Clients used on the CEMN shall implement these two protocol extensions. |
| Collaborative generation of spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents |
ECMA-376, Ed. 1: 2006 Office Open XML Emerging (Dec 2012): Document description and processing languages ISO/IEC 29500:2008 (transitional) |
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| Document exchange, storage and archiving | Document management -- Electronic document file format for long-term preservation –ISO 19005-1:2005 Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1) |