HTML 2.0 Proposed Standard Materials

The HTML 2.0 Proposed Standard, RFC 1866, is a product of the HTML Working Group of the IETF, edited by Dan Connolly.

Network Working Group                                    T. Berners-Lee
Request for Comments: 1866                                      MIT/W3C
Category: Standards Track                                   D. Connolly
                                                          November 1995

The published RFC is the same in content as the September 22 draft, which is available here in several formats:

• Hypertext (HTML) (search)
• postscript, (not A4 paper any more.)
• gzip'd postscript
• TeXinfo,
• distribution: gzip'd tar file (243756 bytes. md5: efcb501e64953971e3569721f1311391. PGP signature. PGP key)

For folks that want to play around with the SGML source: It uses a document type by Gary Houston called Snafu. His GF: General SGML Formatter package includes this DTD and a few others, and some nifty tools to build TeXinfo, RTF, etc. from SGML documents.

Background

HTML 2.0 Public Text

Current DTD, SGML Declaration, and other "SGML code"

Connolly's HTML Design Notebook

Getting kinda old by now.

"Character Set" Considered Harmful

A discussion of terminology related to coded character sets and character encoding schemes.

Aug 8 draft

• distribution: gzip'd tar file

Aug 4 draft

• distribution: gzip'd tar file

June 15 draft

• gzip'd tar of the whole release

May 6 internet draft: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 (130423 bytes)

Connolly
last update by $Author: connolly $ on $Date: 1995/12/21 23:54:05 $