General Information About the World Wide Web
- Accessible Web Site Design
- Apache XML Project
- CGI (Common Gateway Interface) Specification, version 1.1
- Cascading Style Sheets (W3C Recommendation, Dec. 1996)
- Popular browsers now support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
For the status of this document see the W3C
technical reports page.
- Digital Identifier System (DOI)
- Discussion archives at W3C
- ECMA Standard for Web Page Scripting
- Gopher -- Frequently Asked Questions
- HTML Quick Reference Guide at the University of Kansas
- HTML to the MAX: Article by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and R.F. Goldstein
- Article HTML to the Max: A Manifesto for adding SGML Intelligence
to the World-Wide Web by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Robert F. Goldstein.
- HTML-4.01: W3C Specification (W3C Recommendation)
- The current version of HTML (adopted by W3C, December 1999).
For the status of this document
see the W3C technical reports page.
There are also some
pointers
to older information on HTML.
- HTML: Definitive information from W3C
- The latest developments are to be found nearby on the
W3C Markup Activity
page.
- HTTP 1.1 Specification (Local copy of RFC 2068, January 1997)
- HTTP Protocol: Definitive information from W3C
- HTTP-NG: The Next Generation -- Site at W3C
- HTTP-NG: The PARC HTTP-NG Project
- The HTTP-NG project is interested in developing a binary
distributed object protocol, for use with the Web, which is (1) optimized
for Internet use; (2) at least as efficient as HTTP 1.1 for World Wide Web
use; and (3) also provides direct support for remote service invocation
models such as DCOM or CORBA.
- Hypertext Links in HTML (W3C Working draft, Mar '97)
- This article includes information about using HTML links
and meta tags. It should be of interest to page authors who want
to create pages that can be intelligently indexed by machine. For
server keepers: information on
robots.txt. See also the
document on Proposed
Relationship Values.
- Internet Related Technologies web site
- Articles and tutorials.
- List of MIME Types (a.k.a. Media Types)
- Lynx Browser: Where to find
- Meta-Data and Resource Description (W3C, Oct '97)
- Mnemonic Project
- An effort to build an extensible, modular, standards-compliant
web browser under the GNU General Public License.
- Mozilla Organization
- Most of the source code for the NetScape web browser was
released publicly on March 31, 1998. The Mozilla Organization is coordinating
a subsequent Linux-style development effort. A February, 2000
pre-release version of Mozilla has internal handling of Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML).
- NCSA HTML and WWW Resources
- An excellent place to gather basic information about the web.
The available information includes:
as well as many other items of interest.
- Privacy for web users
- Does your web browsing program protect your privacy?
- Search Engine Watch
- Tidy: A program for translating HTML to XHTML
- Something new from Dave Raggett of W3C and Hewlett Packard.
This C program may be used to clean up HTML mistakes made by those
nice friendly graphical authoring HTML tools. It may also be used
to translate your HTML (which is regular SGML) into
the XML form of HTML.
- W3C Technical Reports
- This is often the best place for resolving questions of
current status.
- WAIS (and Z3950), Information about
- Web Standards Project
- A coalition of web developers and users organized to stop
the fragmentation of the web that results a lack of support of
the web's standards by browsing programs.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- This organization might be viewed as the Web's "Chamber of
Commerce". It is not an academic organization although many
individuals associated with it have strong academic ties. Others have
strong ties to commerical interests. Most are very bright.
- XHTML (formerly HTML-Voyager): The Web's Journey from HTML to XHTML
- A W3C recommendation, January, 2000. The larger context for
this is given by the
W3C Hypertext Markup
Language Activity Statement.
- XML: eXtensible Markup Language
- XML is intended to facilitate extensions of HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language), staying within the bounds of SGML (Standard Generalized
Markup Language). The current specification, which became a W3C
recommendation on 10 Feb 1998, is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.
An FAQ on XML is available at
http://www.ucc.ie/xml/. See also our
local
pointers to information about XML.
- About links to FTP in Gopher
- Information for Server Keepers
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