The WDVL: The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is a markup language used to create hypertext documents that are platform independent. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of domains. HTML markup can represent hypertext news, mail, documentation, and hypermedia; menus of options; database query results; simple structured documents with in-lined graphics; and hypertext views of existing bodies of information.

Primers HTML newbie ? These primers will get you started. Then, come back here..

Advanced HTML This is from my seminar, presented at two of the W3C's International World Wide Web Conferences (Boston & Darmstadt), and at several of DCI's Internet Expos. It covers tables and forms in depth.

HTML Reference Manual This Reference Manual reflects the official RFC as well as two kinds of major enhancements/extensions known to the author: those implemented on user agents currently actively used at Sandia Labs, and those major proposals in the standards group which are, in the opinion of the author, nearing stability and consensus. While this may introduce confusion by describing non-existent features, or features available only in one vendor's product, there is value in being aware of the proposed directions in this language.

Cougar "Cougar" is an EXPERIMENTAL version of HTML that extends HTML 3.2 to add support for work by the HTML ERB, including style sheets, scripting, the object tag, internationalization and some extensions to forms. The frame tags will probably be added once the W3C have an agreed definition for them. This document is a condensation of the draft (Wednesday 12-July-96) by Dave Raggett.

Wilbur HTML 3.2 is W3C's new specification for HTML, developed together with vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, SoftQuad, Spyglass, and Sun Microsystems. HTML 3.2 will add widely deployed features such as tables, applets and text flow around images, while providing backwards compatibility with the existing standard HTML 2.0. HTML 3.0 was a proposal for extending HTML published in March 1995. HTML 3.0 was never widely deployed in spite of widespread media coverage.
Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 .
T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly, September 22, 1995.

HTML has been in use by the World Wide Web (WWW) global information initiative since 1990. This specification roughly corresponds to the capabilities of HTML in common use prior to June 1994. HTML is an application of ISO Standard 8879:1986 Information Processing Text and Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
The `text/html' Internet Media Type (RFC 1590) and MIME Content Type (RFC 1521) is defined by this specification.
"Form-based File Upload in HTML",
E. Nebel and L. Masinter, November 1995.
Currently, HTML forms allow the producer of the form to request information from the user reading the form. These forms have proven useful in a wide variety of applications in which input from the user is necessary. However, this capability is limited because HTML forms don't provide a way to ask the user to submit files of data. Service providers who need to get files from the user have had to implement custom user applications. (Examples of these custom browsers have appeared on the www-talk mailing list.) Since file-upload is a feature that will benefit many applications, this draft proposes an extension to HTML to allow information providers to express file upload requests uniformly, and a MIME compatible representation for file upload responses. This draft also includes a description of a backward compatibility strategy that allows new servers to interact with the current HTML user agents.
"HTML Tables",
Dave Raggett, W3C Working Draft 23-Jan-96.
This specification extends HTML to support a wide variety of tables. The model is designed to work well with associated style sheets, but does not require them. It also supports rendering to braille, or speech, and exchange of tabular data with databases and spreadsheets. The HTML table model embodies certain aspects of the CALS table model, e.g. the ability to group table rows into thead, tbody and tfoot sections, plus the ability to specify cell alignment compactly for sets of cells according to the context.
"HTML and Style Sheets",
B. Bos, D. Raggett, H. Lie,
W3C Working Draft 10-Jul-1996
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. This specification extends HTML to provide support for style rules expressed in separately specified notations. It is no longer necessary to extend HTML when new style are needed. Style rules can be (a) included with individual HTML elements to which they apply, (b) grouped together in the document head, or (c) placed in associated style sheets. This specification does not specify particular style sheet notations, leaving that to other specifications.

Primers	HTML newbie ? These primers will get you started. Then, come back here..
Advanced HTML	This is from my seminar, presented at two of the W3C's International World Wide Web Conferences (Boston & Darmstadt), and at several of DCI's Internet Expos. It covers tables and forms in depth.
HTML Reference Manual	This Reference Manual reflects the official RFC as well as two kinds of major enhancements/extensions known to the author: those implemented on user agents currently actively used at Sandia Labs, and those major proposals in the standards group which are, in the opinion of the author, nearing stability and consensus. While this may introduce confusion by describing non-existent features, or features available only in one vendor's product, there is value in being aware of the proposed directions in this language.
Cougar	"Cougar" is an EXPERIMENTAL version of HTML that extends HTML 3.2 to add support for work by the HTML ERB, including style sheets, scripting, the object tag, internationalization and some extensions to forms. The frame tags will probably be added once the W3C have an agreed definition for them. This document is a condensation of the draft (Wednesday 12-July-96) by Dave Raggett.
Wilbur	HTML 3.2 is W3C's new specification for HTML, developed together with vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, SoftQuad, Spyglass, and Sun Microsystems. HTML 3.2 will add widely deployed features such as tables, applets and text flow around images, while providing backwards compatibility with the existing standard HTML 2.0. HTML 3.0 was a proposal for extending HTML published in March 1995. HTML 3.0 was never widely deployed in spite of widespread media coverage.
Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 . T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly, September 22, 1995.	HTML has been in use by the World Wide Web (WWW) global information initiative since 1990. This specification roughly corresponds to the capabilities of HTML in common use prior to June 1994. HTML is an application of ISO Standard 8879:1986 Information Processing Text and Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The `text/html' Internet Media Type (RFC 1590) and MIME Content Type (RFC 1521) is defined by this specification.
"Form-based File Upload in HTML", E. Nebel and L. Masinter, November 1995.	Currently, HTML forms allow the producer of the form to request information from the user reading the form. These forms have proven useful in a wide variety of applications in which input from the user is necessary. However, this capability is limited because HTML forms don't provide a way to ask the user to submit files of data. Service providers who need to get files from the user have had to implement custom user applications. (Examples of these custom browsers have appeared on the www-talk mailing list.) Since file-upload is a feature that will benefit many applications, this draft proposes an extension to HTML to allow information providers to express file upload requests uniformly, and a MIME compatible representation for file upload responses. This draft also includes a description of a backward compatibility strategy that allows new servers to interact with the current HTML user agents.
"HTML Tables", Dave Raggett, W3C Working Draft 23-Jan-96.	This specification extends HTML to support a wide variety of tables. The model is designed to work well with associated style sheets, but does not require them. It also supports rendering to braille, or speech, and exchange of tabular data with databases and spreadsheets. The HTML table model embodies certain aspects of the CALS table model, e.g. the ability to group table rows into thead, tbody and tfoot sections, plus the ability to specify cell alignment compactly for sets of cells according to the context.
"HTML and Style Sheets", B. Bos, D. Raggett, H. Lie, W3C Working Draft 10-Jul-1996	The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. This specification extends HTML to provide support for style rules expressed in separately specified notations. It is no longer necessary to extend HTML when new style are needed. Style rules can be (a) included with individual HTML elements to which they apply, (b) grouped together in the document head, or (c) placed in associated style sheets. This specification does not specify particular style sheet notations, leaving that to other specifications.

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