OK folks, in answer to all the noise about the HTML specification
being out of date...
I have been working with Tim Berners-Lee and Dave Raggett, as well
as numerous other members of the research and industry sectors of the
WWW community.
The first release of the HTML 2.0 specification materials is hereby
announced.
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HTML Specification Review Materials
HTML SPECIFICATION
Status: In Review
The HTML specification was last published as an internet draft in June of
1992. Since then, there has been an enormous increase in the usage of HTML,
and certain new features have emerged. Widespread commercial support for
HTML is on the horizion, and while there is a relatively stable set of
features in current practice, there is no document that specifies them.
These materials comprise an effort to promote interoperability among
developing HTML implementations, and to investigate interactions with
implementations that support more or fewer features than the current
practice.
I consider the document at "first draft" stage -- most of the technical
issues have been thought out (but not widely reviewed), but there has been
very little emphasis on editorial matters.
Review and Publication Process
The WWW technology will probably be moderated by an international consortium
in the future, but since the need for this document is immediate, it will be
published as an SGML Open Technical Report. An SGML Open technical committee
is forming. Contact Dan Connolly <connolly@hal.com>, or Yuri Rubinski,
<yuri@sq.com> for details.
As usual, the document will be publicly available throughout the review
process, and comments may be submitted through internet mail to the editors
or to the <www-talk@info.cern.ch>mailing list.
TODO LIST[1]
The Contents as Hypertext[2]
The whole document
Plain text[3]
Postscript[4]
Compressed tar file of all the .html nodes[5]
Related Materials
HTML Test Suite[6]
Toward Closure on HTML [7] (see also the www-talk mailing list archive[8]
for responses)
Design Notebook[9]
Daniel W. Connolly
connolly@hal.com
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<h1>HTML Specification</h1>
<H2>Status: In Review</H2>
<p> The HTML specification was last published as an internet draft in
June of 1992. Since then, there has been an enormous increase in
the usage of HTML, and certain new features have
emerged. Widespread commercial support for HTML is on the
horizion, and while there is a relatively stable set of features
in current practice, there is no document that specifies them.
<p> These materials comprise an effort to promote interoperability
among developing HTML implementations, and to investigate
interactions with implementations that support more or fewer
features than the current practice.
<p> I consider the document at "first draft" stage -- most of the
technical issues have been thought out (but not widely reviewed),
but there has been very little emphasis on editorial matters.
<H2>Review and Publication Process</H2>
<p> The WWW technology will probably be moderated by an international
consortium in the future, but since the need for this document is
immediate, it will be published as an SGML Open Technical
Report. An SGML Open technical committee is forming. Contact Dan
Connolly <code><connolly@hal.com></code>, or Yuri Rubinski,
<code><yuri@sq.com></code> for details.
<p> As usual, the document will be publicly available throughout the
review process, and comments may be submitted through internet
mail to the editors or to the
<code><www-talk@info.cern.ch></code> mailing list.
<h3><a href="notes/TODO.html">TODO List</a></h3>
<H2><A href="HTML_TOC.html">The Contents as Hypertext</a></H2>
<H2>The whole document</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A
HREF="HTML.txt">Plain text</A>
<LI><A
HREF="HTML.ps.Z">Postscript</A>
<LI><A
HREF="html-spec.tar.gz">Compressed tar file of all the .html nodes</A>
</UL>
<H2>Related Materials</H2>
<ul>
<li><a href="../html-test/README.html">HTML Test Suite</a>
<li><a href="../drafts/html-direction.html">
<cite>Toward Closure on HTML</cite>
</a>
(see also <a href="http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/www-talk-1994q2.subject-index.html">the www-talk mailing list archive</a> for responses)
<li><a href="../drafts/html-design.html">Design Notebook</a>
</ul>
<address>
Daniel W. Connolly<br>
connolly@hal.com<br>
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