HTML Design Notebook
Daniel W. Connolly
Version: $Id: html-design.html,v 1.15 1994/11/26 19:53:43 connolly Exp $
Contents
- Background
- Specification
- Documentation for Users and Authors
- Implementations
- Meetings
- Working Groups
- My Notes
- Related Specs
- Related Projects
The HTML 2.0 Specification Review materials
includes complete information on the HTML Working group of the IETF,
the discussion of the HTML 2.0 specification, mailing list archive,
and other supporting materials.
See the Publication
History section for pointers to HTML+ and other specifications.
Validation and Maintenance Tools
Have a question about HTML syntax? Enter the questionable data
into HaLsoft
HTML Validation Service and have it checked interactively!
Electronic Discussion Forums
- www-talk
- The WWW talk mailing list is the original technical discussion
forum for the WWW project. Comments, questions, and proposals are
welcome, but please direct Mosaic installation/support questions
to comp.infosystems.users
or mosaic-x@ncsa-uiuc.edu.
www-talk is maintained by an administrator at CERN.
There is also a
hypertext archive.
- HTML Working Group
- IETF Working group for HTML.
-
www-html
- The
WWW HTML Mailing List was recently created by Tim Berners-Lee and some
other folks, as an effort to reduce the traffic on www-talk. There is
a
hypertext archive.
-
comp.text.sgml
- A USENET newsgroup for discussion about SGML.
- comp.infosystems.www
- A
USENET newsgroup for discussion about WWW. This is a high-traffic, low
signal-to-noise discussion forum. I believe there is a vote in
progress to split the group into serveral more manageable
groups. After c.i.w is split, I believe WIT should be adapted to use
the USENET infrastructure.
-
HyperNews page on HTML
- Lots of links to other stuff, plus: support for adding your own links!
Some Articles
Each implementation has its own quirks w.r.t SGML and HTML:
-
Netscape Extensions to HTML, and my comments on their
extensions with respect to SGML..
- html-helper-mode
by Nelson Minar another
emacs editing mode. I haven't checked it out.
- Roy Fielding's perl library
- Jim Davis's perl HTML parser. Seems to do comments wrong.
- Linemode from CERN
- XMP parsing: much like CDATA, but not quite. There's no
way in SGML to represent the "everything up to
</XMP>" syntax of the linemode's XMP tag. An SGML
CDATA element ends at the first occurence of </[a-zA-Z].
- flat formatter: no nested lists
- NeXT by timbl
- MosaicWWW
- broken comment parsing -- thinks comments end with
>, rather than the actual-->
- re-introduced SHORTTAG features, ala
<IMG ISMAP> rather than <IMG feature="ismap">
- elements like BR and HR should have been elements --
either external data elements, or general elements for processing
instructions or some such.
- MidasWWW 1.0
Really nifty style-sheet based SGML hypertext widget set. Too
bad it got beat out by Mosaic :-(
- Cello
(PC/MS-Windows) comes from Cornell
- tkWWW
- Seems to handle most of HTML+.
- w3-mode.el for emacs
- Follows Mosaic on forms, IMG, etc.
- lynx
- Follows Mosaic on forms, IMG, etc.
- I've never seen it in action
- Dave Raggett's HTML+ implementation
- unrelease. Can't tell much about it.
Other Tools
- html-mode.el by Marc Andressen (sp?)
- fixes unqoted attribute values
- I wish it would add tags surrounding the region
in stead of inserting both start and end tags at point.
- Perhaps I can enhance it to Do The Right thing with P
elements too.
- psgml mode
- requires a newer emacs version than I have. Bummer.
- www_and_frame by connolly@convex.com
- frame2html by ???
- The LaTeX2HTML Translator
- nifty -- gives a whole new motivation for nested lists and such.
- doesn't properly quote attribute values.
- CERN's printing tools
- numerous RTF2HTML tools
HTML Working group of the IETF
See HTML 2.0 Spec Review Materials for
details.
Austin WWW User's Group (AWWWUG)
http://192.195.32.1/www/Austin/AustinOrgs/AWWWUG/AWWWUG.html
Integration of Internet Information Resources
Publications
-
Resource Transponders,
10/26/1993,
<draft-ietf-iiir-transponders-01.txt>
-
A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service,
10/26/1993,
<draft-ietf-iiir-vision-01.txt>
-
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): A Representation of Textual
Information and MetaInformation for Retrieval and
Interchange,
07/23/1993,
<draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt, .ps>
-
WAIS over Z39.50-1988,
10/26/1993,
<draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt>
-
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) A Stateless Search, Retrieve and
Manipulation Protocol,
11/16/1993,
draft-ietf-iiir-http-00.txt, .ps
- HTML+ Status
- My notes on the history/status of HTML, with a recent (1994-11-02)
message from Dave Ragget.
-
internet-drafts/draft-levinson-sgml-00.txt
- A way to wrap SGML documents up in MIME messages. Should be brought
into line with SGML Open catalog files.
- TEI Guidelines for
Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
- An ambitious application of SGML int the humanities and linguistics
domain. The TEI documentation includes lots of good stuff about SGML,
which in turn may help folks understand HTML.
This section is hopelessly out of date. DWC 1994-10-14