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  • ALL ACCEPTED STANDARDS REPRESENTED A SUBSET OF LANGUAGE COMMONLY SUPPORTED BY BROWSERS AT THE TIME.
    • FRAMES ARE NOT PART OF HTML 3.2.

  • ADDING FEATURES IS A MAJOR WEAPON IN THE BROWSER WARS.

  • THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE USING MOSAIC OUT THERE!

THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT YOU OFTEN HAVE TO BALANCE USING THE LATEST TOOLS AGAINST BEING ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.



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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