Note that the page structure here will probably change and expand rapidly as more information and links are added.
The following are links to HTML relevant sites.
The following is an extensive list of HTML resources with comment
has been compiled by:
Michael J. Hannah
Sandia National Laboratories
mjhanna@sandia.gov
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
The general home page for HTML information at WWW.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/L2index.html
This November 1994 alphabetical listing of HTML elements for
the proposed Version 2, constructed by Dan Connolly, formed the
original structure of this document. Prior to Dan Connolly's
move to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT, this reference
was: http://www.hal.com/users/connolly/html-spec/htmlindex.html
http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html
An excellent starting page for information on SGML.
http://www.ucc.ie/~pflynn/books/htmlcard.html
A quick reference card to the HTML elements, organized by
logical function. This card appears in printed form in Spinning
the Web (ISBN 1-850-32141-8) by Andrew Ford, and The
WorldWideWeb Handbook (ISBN 1-850-32205-8) by Peter Flynn, both
published by International Thomson Computer Press.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/html.html
The Library of Congress index of links about HTML.
http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html
A book on HTML Documentation by Ian Graham which I believe has
by now been published. Ian has informed me (as of Jan 96) that
this collection is recently updated and reorganized, and now
covers additional material, including Microsoft and Netscape
extensions.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/fill-out-forms/overv
iew.html
Documentation of Mosiac for X version 2.0 fill-out form
support.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
The HTML Primer developed by NCAR.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTML.html
A set of pointers to various publications about HTML including
the draft 1.2 of Internet MIME Content Type (RFC 1341) which
expired 13 Jan 1994. That was a description of Version 1 HTML
written by Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel Connolly.
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/HTML_quick.html
A quick reference to the "most commonly used elements" of HTML
Version 1 and 2 by Michael Grobe.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html.dtd
The Document Type Definition (DTD) of the Version 2
specification for HTML. Prior to Dan Connolly's move to World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT, this reference was:
http://www.hal.com/users/connolly/html-spec/html-pubtext.html
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/html2/index.html
HTML Version 2 as of 29 Nov 1994 as an Internet Media Type (RFC
1590) and MIME Content Type (RFC 1521) written by Tim
Berners-Lee and Daniel Connolly. This link no longer exists.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-pubtext.html
The text of HTML Version 2.0.
http://home.mcom.com/home/services_docs/html-extensions.html
The description of the extensions to HTML used by Netscape,
Version 1.0.
http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html
The description of the extensions to HTML used by Netscape,
Version 1.1.
http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/new_html3_prop.html and
http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions_3.html
The description of the extensions to HTML used by Netscape,
Version 2.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/IE20HTML.htm
The description of the extensions to HTML used by Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Version 2.0. This is labeled beta
documentation, and the last time I accessed it was very
incomplete. Many extensions are mentioned but not documented.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html
This document appears to be a definitive reference to the
Common Gateway Interface, which describes the structure of
cgi-bin programs. These programs are required for the ISMAP
attribute of the IMG element, as well as for processing FORM
element input.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/imagemapping.html
This is a comprehensive tutorial on imagemapping. It includes a
discussion of an NCSA image map utility. This is a cgi-bin
program that is useful with the ISMAP attribute on the IMG
element. Earlier, but now obsolete, references to this utility
included:
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/admin/Imagemap.html and
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/admin/NewImagemap.html
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_1.html
HTML+ (a superset of Version 2, and the precursor to Version 3)
as of 8 Nov 1993, by David Raggett. Includes some interesting
possibilities.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Arena/tour/start.html
An overview of the proposed features of Version 3, and
identification of those proposals likely to be deferred until
Version 3.1. Also identifies access to a test browser designed
to display the new Version 3.0 features as part of the review
process.
http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/CoverPage.html
An early draft of the text for a proposed Version 3 as a (now
expired) Internet RFC by David Raggett. This link is identical
to http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/CoverPage.html
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-1.html
An excellent analysis of the relationship of the ISO8859
Latin-1 character set with HTML entities, including
representational tables, identification of browser
implementation inconsistencies and differing/invalid
presenatation.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/cgh/
This is my personal favorite of the many documents describing
how to write good HTML, including "Common Errors" and "Things
to Avoid". This used to be (and still is) located at:
http://www.willamette.edu/html-composition/strict-html.html but
the new location has been updated.
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html
The Style Guide at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT,
written by Tim Berners-Lee.
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/
A list of W3C Tech Reports, which currently only lists the
latest proposal for standardization of tables as an extension
to RFC 1866.
http://www.javasoft.com/JDK-beta/filesinkit/README
The extensions to HTML required to access Java(tm) applets,
Version Beta 1.0. Note that the HTML tag changed from APP to
APPLET from pre-beta to beta.
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/
The site I use to retrieve internet-drafts. These include
drafts of proposals being considered by the HTML Working Group
developing extensions to RFC 1866. Two specific proposals
reviewed for inclusion in this Reference Manual were
draft-ietf-html-fileupload-03.txt and
draft-ietf-html-clientsideimagemap-01.txt.
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