Østfold College - Department of Informatics and Automation
Software Design

Notes: HTML 2509 96
Jon Løvstad

HTML, RFCs, and emerging standards

RFC documents

• 1980: A Proposed Extension to HTML: Client-Side Image Maps
• 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0
• 1942: HTML Tables
• 1867: Form-based File Upload in HTML
• 1866: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0
• 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
• 1737: Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names

Standards

• HTML 3.2 (working draft)
• HTML 3.0 (utgått, erstattet av HTML 3.2)
• HTML 2.0 (IETF proposed standard [RFC 1866])
• Netscape extensions supported by Navigator 3.0
• Cascading Style Sheets (Working Draft)

Developement

• HTML Timeline 1991 - 1995

HTML Authoring

References and Guides

• HTML Style Guide (Tim Berners-Lee)
• WWW authoring FAQ
• HotWired's Webmonkey
• Web Design Group

Embedding of datatypes

• MIME types
• Plug-Ins
• CGI scripting
• Proposed standards for embedding media objects: Netscape (EMBED), W3C (APPLET) (Java code only)