Technology - Web Development 3 - HTML Basics

Synopsis

Beginning with a tutorial on basic HTML coding, we introduce a number of related technologies, including XML, breadcrumbs navigational aids and web accessibility standards. We also discuss Capcha techniques for enabling access only to human users rather than computer programs, the history of HTML standards and the Semantic Web.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Current and future standards
  • 2.1 Complexity and compatibility
  • 2.2 Accessibility versus visual appeal
  • 2.3 Usability guidelines
  • 2.4 Breadcrumbs navigational aids
    • 2.4.1 Captcha - detecting a human user
• 3. Semantic Web
• 4. Basic HTML
  • 4.1 A simple HTML example
  • 4.2 Elements, attributes and values
  • 4.3 Collapsing whitespace
• 5. SGML and XML
  • 5.1 Document Type Definition - DTD
  • 5.2 Simpler XML
    • 5.2.1 XML as a data storage format
  • 5.3 Previous versions of HTML
    • 5.3.1 ISO-HTML
• 6. Related reports