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IN "ANCIENT" TIMES
DEVICES USED TO INPUT TEXT COULD NOT APPROXIMATE CAPABILITIES OF OUTPUT DEVICES
  • WITH PUNCHED CARDS, YOU COULDN'T EVEN TYPE IN LOWER CASE
  • WITH "DUMB" TERMINAL, DISPLAY USED 1 FONT, 1 SIZE
ON THE WEB
  • CAPABILITIES OF OUTPUT DEVICES (BROWSERS) ARE VARIABLE
  • IT ISN'T CLEAR WHAT A WYSIWYG EDITOR SHOULD TRY TO APPROXIMATE (WHAT SHOULD YOU SEE WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GET?)



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  • Useful Networking Background
  • The Client Server Relationship
  • Server Software and Protocols
  • HTTP and HTML
  • HTML Background
  • A Sample of HTML
  • What is WYSIWYG?
  • SAMPLE MS WORD SCREEN DISPLAY
  • SAMPLE OF TROFF MARKUP COMMANDS
  • The Motivation for Markup Languages
  • PHYSICAL VS. LOGICAL MARKUP
  • IS LOGICAL MARKUP LOGICAL FOR THE WEB?
  • HTML Standards
  • HTML Standardization Efforts
  • WHAT VERSION OF HTML TO USE?
  • Basic Syntactic Conventions
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • Overview of Document Structure
  • HTML DOCUMENT STRUCTURE
  • SPECIFYING THE DOCUMENT TITLE
  • THE STRUCTURE OF A DOCUMENT <BODY>
  • BLOCK LEVEL ELEMENTS AS CONTAINERS
  • THE ALIGN ATTRIBUTE
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS (cont.)
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS (cont.)
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS (cont.)
  • PREFORMATTED TEXT
  • (Not-PRE) FORMATTED TEXT
  • CONTAINER CONTAINERS
  • MAKING LINKS
  • URL'S
  • URL Protocol Specifications
  • URL Host Specifications
  • URL File Names
  • URL Directory Path Specification
  • RELATIVE URLS
  • ANCHORS
  • URLS WITH ANCHORS
  • DEFINING AN ANCHOR LOCATION