HyperText Markup Language & Transfer Protocol (HTML & HTTP)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

• HTML 3.2 Reference Specification WWW Consortium's Recommendation.
• HTML 4.0 Specification WWW Consortium's New Recommendation. I've had trouble using the claimed symbol fonts.
• HTML Tutorial Maintained by some group called w3schools.com.
• Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications by Alan Wood. Includes codes for special characters that can be displayed by many browsers.

HTML Style Guides

• Style Guide for Online Hypertext WWW Consortium's style manual for web pages.
• Web Site Guidlines - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) FSF's style manual for web pages.

HTML Design Aids

• VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab Click on the individual colors to generate comparitive swatches. Suggest choosing target background color last.
• WebMaster Tools The source for that automatic notification of webpage changes that GNU uses. Might be useful if we ever set-up a HOPS page.

Recovering Lost/Dead Links

• Easily finding cached/old versions of a site/page when it's down or gone. Clear instructions for using the wayback machine approach.
• Finding Old Web Pages. Compare different options, including how far back they go.

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview WWW Consortium.
• HyperText Transfer Protocol - PC Webopaedia Definition and Links Seemingly useful links for finding out about HTTP.