HTML interesting information

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GML (Generalized Markup Language) was invented by Charles F. Goldfarb of IBM in the 1960's, he is also co-creator of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).

Both HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and XML (Extensible Markup Language) are subsets of SGML.

References: (nice reading)

Waterloo Script User's Guide Version 89.1, (PostScript document): [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:www.uic.edu/depts/adn/infwww/ps/scriptug.ps]
The Evolution of Web Documents: The Ascent of XML: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/papers/xml/ascent-of-xml.html]
Background to SGML and HTML: [http://www.sgml.u-net.com/book/sgml-1.htm]
XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup Language
The XML Cover pages: [http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/]
SGML Users' Group History (news article): [http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlhist0.html]
Why the Extensible Markup Language
[http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.html]
Goldfarb's Invention and IBM's DCF/GML Product, short mini-history contained in a document about MiniGML.: [http://www.romankoch.ch/capslock/minigml.htm]

Acronyms

DCF,: Document Composition Language
DTD,: Document Type Definition
GML,: Generalized Markup Language (invented in 1969 by Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher, and Ray Lorie, IBM.)
Charles F. Goldfarb's Online Press Kit, A Brief History of the Development of SGML, GML - EBookWiki
HTML,: HyperText Markup Language (Tim Berners-Lee and Anders Berglund based on SGML),
SGML,: Standard Generalized Markup Language (invented by Charles Goldfarb),
SHTML,: Server-Side Include Hypertext Markup Language
XML,: Extensible Markup Language
PICS,: Platform for Internet Content Selection

BookMaster -- no acronym for this, IBM documentation software used in virtually all IBM publications

Markup Languages: Understanding SGML, HTML, XML, glossary of terms

Standards/Syntax

HTML 4.01 Specification [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/]: Index of Elements [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html]

HTML 4 is an SGML application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Facility [ ISO8879].

General References

HTML Resources -- The HTML Writers Guild: [http://www.hwg.org/resources/?cid=14]

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The links in the above references have been updated 2000-07-30, the links on the remainder of this page have not been updated. If you are working with HTML would highly recommend downloading the HTML documentation for local use on your computer. .zip archive of HTML files [405Kb], when unzipping plrease be aware of the fact that the filenames are not 8.3 (filename.ext) DOS names.

HTML sites

These were simply pulled out of my BookMarks, I will not update the links on the page. I also am not likely to extract them from my bookmarks again if bookmarks are no longer kept in HTML pages, and descriptions cannot be added to bookmarks. Also being able to sort bookmarks in an HTML file has been dropped from Netscape and none of this is available in Internet Explorer. A REXX macro was used to show the actual urls. (HTMLDOC)

Since many of the links below are dead you might want to see some of them through http://www.archive.org or prefix the URL with http://web.archive.org/web/*/ to look up in archives ie.to lo

HTML -- Authoring, Guides, Materials, Syntax, etc. (GML, SGML)

Best Courses (FREE) for HTML

Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/Roadmap/Welcome.html--]

BEST GUIDES FOR HTML

HTML 3.2 Quick Reference

[--http://www.cc.ukans.edu/info/HTML_quick3.2.html--]

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification

[--http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-html32--]

HTML quick reference

[--http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/HTML_quick.shtml--]

NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML

[--http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html#HV--]

NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML

[--http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html--]

Technical Information and Specifications

[--http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/d2-tech.html--]

The HTML Reference Library

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~le387818/what.html--]

Web Style Sheets

[--http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/Welcome.html--]

WebCom Guide - HTML Guide

[--http://www.webcom.com/html/tutor/--]

ADD/EXCLUDE your site to/from these search engines

A Standard for Robot Exclusion

[--http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html--]

Add Your Site to Lycos

[--http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html--]

The Sleuth URL Submit Engine Page

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.suttondesigns.com/addurl.htm--]

COLORS, graphics, for backgrounds etc,

Andy's Art Attack! - Free animated gifs, backgrounds, buttons, Photoshop tips, Illustrator tutorials, HTML tips, graphic tips, web design secrets & more!

[--http://www.andyart.com/--]

Background Colors

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://colors.infi.net/colorindex.html--]

ColorServe Pro

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.biola.edu/cgi-bin/colorpro/colorpro.cgi?bv=060=47=33=128=128=77=243=198=232=190=19=B=04B222=000000=1403B2=99038F=CACC04--]

Create HTML color, graphics, etc.

[--http://www.writething.com/linkcr.html--]

HYPE's Color Specifier for Netscape v.3

[--http://www.users.interport.net/~giant/COLOR/1ColorSpecifier.html--]

RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart

[--http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/rgbhex.html--]

Tutorials

Summer Computer Camp'97

[--http://cimic3.rutgers.edu/music/camp97/--]

VALIDATORS

A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator

[--http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/validate/--]

Suite of HTML Validation Suites

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ccs.org/validate/--]

WebTechs HTML Validation Service ***

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://valsvc.webtechs.com/url/--]

Web Page Design

Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:Page Design and Layout:Graphics:Icons

[--http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Programming/Icons--]

Uncategorized HTML information

Bare Bones Guide to HTML

[--http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html--]

Bibliography of HTML Reference Documents

[--http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/bibliography.html--]

Bibliography of Web Development Materials

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.glatz.com/tools/biblio.html#1568843224--]

Charm Net Learning

[--http://www.charm.net/learning.html--]

David Siegel's Home Page

[--http://www.dsiegel.com/home.html--]

Development Tools

[--http://www.glatz.com/tools/--]

Doctor HTML v5 -- Use Single Page Analysis

[--http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/--]

GMLHTML: A GML to HTML Translator

[--http://hotspur.psych.yorku.ca/~friendly/gml/gmlhtml.html--]

HTML 2.0 Example

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~csandvig/ip/example.html--]

HTML 3.2 Quick Reference

[--http://www.cc.ukans.edu/info/HTML_quick3.2.html--]

HTML Author's Guide to the Robots Exclusion Protocol

[--http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/exclusion-user.html--]

HTML Authoring & Marketing -- Information Links

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.maui.net/~mcculc/resource.htm--]

HTML Quick Reference (8/20/96)

[--http://www.cc.ukans.edu/info/HTML_quick.html--]

HTML Writers Guild: List of HTML Resources

[--http://www.hwg.org/resources/html/index.html--]

HTML Writers Guild: WWW Resources

[--http://www.hwg.org/resources/--]

http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/courses.html

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/courses.html--]

http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/content.htm

[--http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/content.htm--]

Index Dot HTML: THE Advanced HTML Reference

[--http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/html/--]

Index of the Internet Road Map

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/help/map/mapindex.html--]

Interactive Maps

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/interact.html--]

Internet Web Text -- Narrative

[--http://www.december.com/web/text/index.html--]

Introduction to HTML - Table of Contents

[--http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html--]

Introduction to Perl

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://scfie.eie.umich.mx/perlcourse.html--]

Introduction to the Internet

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://osiris.colorado.edu/LAB/DOCS/intro.html--]

Introduction to the Internet - Class notes

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/text/internet/notes/index.html--]

MBL/NLM Medical Informatics Course: The Internet

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/LECTURES.dir/internet_course.dir/starting_page.html--]

Other Web Page Authoring Help Pages

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.boldweb.com/persona/goodwebs.htm--]

publishing.html

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://web.mit.edu/publishing.html--]

SGML - AltaVista Search: Advanced Query susan.hockey & sgml

[--http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq=20=susan%2ehockey+%26+sgml--]

SGML - Symposium 2: Hockey

[--http://arl.cni.org/scomm/symp2/Hockey.html--]

Simple examples for the AnyURL CGI forms utility

[--http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/AnyURL-examples.html--]

Technical writer -- resume.html

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rac/resume.html--]

The Art of HTML

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thecoo.edu:80/~menon/html.html--]

The Common Gateway Interface

[--http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html--]

The HTML Goodies Home Page - Thanks for stopping by...

[--http://www.htmlgoodies.com/--]

The HTML Reference Library

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~le387818/other.html--]

THE Netscape Frames Tutorial(tm) - NewbieNET

[--http://www.newbie.net/frames/--]

The Single-Pixel GIF

[--http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/wonk5/single.html--]

The URL-minder: Your Own Personal Web Robot!

[--http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html--]
Your own personal ROBOT to tell you when someone's web page has changed. Suggest using the Advanced EXPERT form.

Tools for WWW providers

[--http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Tools/Overview.html--]

Web Resources (Miscellaneous)

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.networking.ibm.com/netwebr.html--]

Web Server Resource Guide

[--http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/resource_guide.html--]

WebCounter Home Page

[--http://www.digits.com/--]

Webmonkey - HTML

[--http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/html/--]

Working with HTML

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.liunet.edu/~edt/fall96/tk/htmlwork.htm--]

WWWeblint

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.unipress.com/cgi-bin/WWWeblint--]

Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Software:Data Formats:HTML

[--http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Data_Formats/HTML/--]

Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Software:Data Formats:HTML:Validation/Checkers

[--http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Data_Formats/HTML/Validation_Checkers/--]

ZD Net Software Library - Free Tools for Power Web Pages

[--http://www.hotfiles.com/toolkits/tlkt109a.html--]

ZDNet Software Library - Browse/Search Results

[--http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/search.html?link=1=20000=download--]

ZDNet Software Library - HTML Reference Library (32-bit)

[--http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=0008W1--]

Additional HTML information can be found in "Excel to HTML", which is being actively maintained.

Images, Icons

Computer Icons -- http://timesync.gmu.edu/pictures/computer.html

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://timesync.gmu.edu/pictures/computer.html--]

GIF image 26x18 pixels

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://goedel.cs.camosun.bc.ca/~weston/images/bug.gif--]

Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 2 of 4): Image Conversion and Display Programs

[--http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/graphics/fileformats-faq/part2.html--]
Subject: Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 2 of 4): Image Conversion and Display Programs. All FAQs in Directory:
graphics/fileformats-faq All FAQs posted...

netCREATORS Icon Page! - FREE Animated Gifs - FREE Graphics - Clip Art, GIF Animations, Backgrounds, Icons, Bars, Bullets, Buttons, Cartoons, Midi and more!

[--http://animatedgifs.simplenet.com/--]

Pixelsight

[--http://www.pixelsight.com/--]

Viewing Images on the Diskette

[--http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www-lib.uoknor.edu/libwww/libwww.2.0024.html--]
Library WWW User's Guide. Version 0.9b (c) 1995 by Peter Childs. Viewing Images on the Diskette. Viewing uses Generalized
Bitmap Module (GBM) To display any supported.

Internet Technology & Publications

Internet Resources Meta-Index

[--http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html--]
This document is intended to be a loosely categorized meta-index of the various resource directories and indices available on the Internet. Please send suggestions for new entries on this list (any index or directory of resources) to mosaic@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Technology News

[--http://home.netscape.com/escapes/tech_news/tech_news4.html--]