HTML Design Notebook

Daniel W. Connolly
Version: $Id: html-design.html,v 1.15 1994/11/26 19:53:43 connolly Exp $

Contents

  1. Background
  2. Specification
  3. Documentation for Users and Authors
  4. Implementations
  5. Meetings
  6. Working Groups
  7. My Notes
  8. Related Specs
  9. Related Projects

Background

Specification

The HTML 2.0 Specification Review materials includes complete information on the HTML Working group of the IETF, the discussion of the HTML 2.0 specification, mailing list archive, and other supporting materials.

See the Publication History section for pointers to HTML+ and other specifications.

Validation and Maintenance Tools

Have a question about HTML syntax? Enter the questionable data into HaLsoft HTML Validation Service and have it checked interactively!

Documentation for Users and Authors

Discussion

Electronic Discussion Forums

www-talk
The WWW talk mailing list is the original technical discussion forum for the WWW project. Comments, questions, and proposals are welcome, but please direct Mosaic installation/support questions to comp.infosystems.users or mosaic-x@ncsa-uiuc.edu. www-talk is maintained by an administrator at CERN. There is also a hypertext archive.
HTML Working Group
IETF Working group for HTML.
www-html
The WWW HTML Mailing List was recently created by Tim Berners-Lee and some other folks, as an effort to reduce the traffic on www-talk. There is a hypertext archive.
comp.text.sgml
A USENET newsgroup for discussion about SGML.
comp.infosystems.www
A USENET newsgroup for discussion about WWW. This is a high-traffic, low signal-to-noise discussion forum. I believe there is a vote in progress to split the group into serveral more manageable groups. After c.i.w is split, I believe WIT should be adapted to use the USENET infrastructure.
HyperNews page on HTML
Lots of links to other stuff, plus: support for adding your own links!

Some Articles

Implementations

Each implementation has its own quirks w.r.t SGML and HTML:

Other Tools

Working Groups

HTML Working group of the IETF

See HTML 2.0 Spec Review Materials for details.

Austin WWW User's Group (AWWWUG)

http://192.195.32.1/www/Austin/AustinOrgs/AWWWUG/AWWWUG.html

Integration of Internet Information Resources

Publications

Related Specs

HTML+ Status
My notes on the history/status of HTML, with a recent (1994-11-02) message from Dave Ragget.
internet-drafts/draft-levinson-sgml-00.txt
A way to wrap SGML documents up in MIME messages. Should be brought into line with SGML Open catalog files.
TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
An ambitious application of SGML int the humanities and linguistics domain. The TEI documentation includes lots of good stuff about SGML, which in turn may help folks understand HTML.

Related Projects

This section is hopelessly out of date. DWC 1994-10-14