Custom, convention, product, or system that holds a dominant position by public acceptance or market forces.
1Timers are the de facto standard for splitting up JavaScript code execution in browsers.
2DICOM format is the de facto standard for communications between therapeutic and diagnostic modalities.
3Indeed, Sun is rushing to make Java a de facto standard on the burgeoning Web.
4Many scanners allow for different image formats, TIFF, of course, being a de facto standard.
5That's a de facto standard for all agencies.
6This is a well-known de facto standard that rarely gets mentioned in news coverage about news aggregation.
7To some, the BlackBerry line seems behind the times, though it remains the de facto standard for corporate smartphones.
8PhiGO uses the Gene Ontology schema, the de facto standard for describing knowledge about gene products across many databases.
9Android is quickly becoming the de facto standard, and Microsoft is trying to find a way of fitting in.
10And when Cisco gets that share a lot of vendors may have to support a Cisco de facto standard.
11Google has opened up the long de facto standard for map overlays, the Keyhole Markup Language, making it an official open standard.
12Scott successfully opened the wounds of ignorance and technical apathy and made he and the Times the de facto standard in Scien- tific Journalism.
13Despite computers fixing the issue of jamming keys, people had the layout stored in their muscle memory, hence why it became the de facto standard.
14When it debuted over a decade ago, the chip was supposed to become the de facto standard for big iron, but this never really happened.
15Each of these languages has its strengths and weaknesses and one or more of them could become the next de facto standard for software development.
16Adobe counters that Flash is a multi-platform de facto standard and that Apple is being proprietary by not allowing Flash on the iPad and iPhone.
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