A new mirror site,
Corrected a type on the address of the California III mirror.
Some links to faq10.html were wrong, and pointed to faq10.hmtl.
New mirrors, Mexico and
Portugal.
Again new mirrors in Europe, in Yugoslavia
and Finland.
Corrected a typo in the style sheets page.
New mirror in Pakistan, the first in Asia.
The mirror site England II moved to a new address.
New mirror in the USA: Kentucky,
The address of the Sweden II mirror has changed.
New mirrors in the USA: New York,
Utah and
California IV, and one in
Argentina.
Split up the entries for mirrors in America in North America and South America.
Corrected a typo in the WBR description.
A new mirror joins, Ireland III.
A new FAQ page, called How do I include another file inside a HTML file?
Removed the double titles from all the FAQ pages
Corrected some syntax errors on the start page, thanks to weblint.
Extended the desciption of the background attribute of the BODY tag.
Changed the address of the California III mirror site.
Corrected small typos on the page 'How can I make text scroll in the status bar?',
and start page.
Again changes to mirror sites, a new address for the Wisconsin mirror. Two new mirrors,
England II
by Paul white, and one in Russia
by Vladimir Leschenko.
News on the mirror front: two new mirrors, one in
Hungary by Üveges Bálint and one in
Luxembourgby Herve Villance.
The address of the Sweden II mirror site has changed (same server).
A new mirror is available, Ireland II, maintained by Jonathan Bruce.
A new mirror is available in Arizona (USA), by Albert Fowler.
Added some resources to the style sheets page, and the resource collection.
Corrected an error in the page about the META element causing
it to be unreadable, and two typos on the
generic attributes page.
Made a small textual change on the page for the A element.
Added a second zip file, to allow easier updates for those who downloaded the site.
See the download page.
Removed a mirror in Australia from the list.
I changed the resources so there will be less problems with earlier browsers, like
IE 3.0.
I've added a search function, written in JavaScript, so it will also function if you are
using this reference off-line.
Corrected an error that caused the FAQ page about password protecting a page not to work
properly.
Changed the tips&tricks button into faq/tips.
Added the Canada mirror, maintained
by Real Martel.
Added style sheet information to the selection lists.
Added the character entities from HTML 4.0 on the characters page.
Kieran Colfer kindly set up a mirror in Ireland.
two new FAQ pages: How can I open a new browser window from a link? and
How can I make text scroll in the status bar?
A new FAQ page: How can I change two or more pages when a link is clicked?
New mirror: Australia III, by Lee Sanders
Added links to the HTML version of the resources.
Structured the page titles, removed my name from it.
Replaced some presentational HTLM coding with style sheets.
Changed the full names with the copyright information for HTML 4.0 to
abbreviations (like on the W3C site).
Added a page to the tips & tricks section about automatic redirection.
Changed the 'SOURCE' and 'RESULT' images.Updated the look of the 'related pages' boxes.
Rewrote the legal terms to a more clear and complete form, and removed a line
from the download page.
start.html: New colors, new title images.
characters.html: Added the "out" icon to the link to the W3C.
quickref1.html: Added the last modification date (actualy it's the
date when the page was generated).
download.html: fixed two links that had no closing A tag; added a border to
the table with mirror sites.
Created a separate page with all the colornames you can use.
Small changes to the look of sidebars with links to related pages on the
!DOCTYPE, A, BDO, BUTTON, FRAME, FRAMESET, IFRAME, IMG pages.
A new page in the Tips &Tricks section:
How can I change the color of a link?. Plus links
to this page from the A tag and the color pages.
Added a link to Amazon for Steve Shiflett's book.
Corrected a typo in the link to the Illinois II mirror.
Added the Pennsylvania
mirror set up by Ron Bigham.
Cliff Evans has set up a new mirror in
England.
Mirror California III
created by William Snyder.
Changed to new layout for Mind-It subscription.
Trey Dawg created the Texas mirror.
Changed the layout of the start page from three to two columns. Made a selection list for the mirror
sites.
Thanks to Edwin Groeneschey there are two (!) new mirror sites, one in the
USA (Washington)
and one in the Netherlands.
I created a new system to change the resources page from a static page to
a rs:LinkZ directory.
With this system you can create a directory structrure of adresses, split
in different categories plus a search facility.
Thanks to Chris Pappe and Ray Trygstad there are two new mirror sites in
Illinois, USA. One at Acronet and one at
The Illinois Institute of Technology.
Corrected typo that showed some incorrect HTML on the first JavaScript
to secure a page
Added the information from the WebTV 2.1 documentation.
Added the ALIGN attribute to the DIV element, plus some new examples.
Created separate pages for the H1 - H6 elements instead of the incorrect
Hx element.
Added the title attribute to the
page with generic attributes.
The FAQ page about protecting HTML was extended with a description of using
the SRC attribute of the SCRIPT tag to hide the source. Also split the page
and put every JavaScript solution on a separate page.
Corrected an error in the script to generate the site because in the quick
reference most attributes had their last character removed.
Added a note to the INPUT type FILE, about the support for it in Internet
Explorer 3.
Added another way to
protect a page with JavaScript
Updated faq page How can I maintain the layout of my
frames?.
Changed the logo to a simpeler form.
Added links to the start page in the NOFRAMES sections.
Updated: FRAME, ACRONYM.
Corrected incorrect HTML in the HEAD of non-tags pages.
Added OBJECT element.
Added scripts to protect against framing by other sites.
Faq: new page, to make sure a page is loaded
inside its frameset. And started to make different categories for questions.
New mirrors: Italy III, by Maurizio Codogno plus Poland by Marcin
Niewiatowski.
new link to RFC 1867 in description of INPUT element.
Added ALT attributes to images without them.
Removed the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes from all the icons, so browsing
without images shows the ALT text in some browsers.
Corrected broken links on the pages about DIV and SPAN.
Added paragraph about navigation on the starting page.
Added link to the help page to the list of other pages in the navigation.
Merged the information from the log page into this history page, and
removed the log page.
Changed download page: added rules how to become
an official mirror, and described how mirror sites can advertise on the
homepage. For this I moved name.gif from the upper bar to the homepage.
Put my own site in the Netherlands to the mirrors on the homepage.
Changed Australia headings for mirrors to
Australasia.
Fixed some broken links on the start page (thanks Scott).
Added the help page
Updated icons in the color palette and style sheets pages.
Added BODY:marginwidth,marginheight (Thanks to Bryan White)
Added support icons for Internet Explorer 4.0.
Changed source for attributes to lowercase, plus values inside quotes
(examples + site).
Added TBODY:align,char,charoff,valign TD:char,charoff
TFOOT:align,char,charoff,valign TH:char,charoff
THEAD:align,char,charoff,valign TR:char,charoff
Listed the support for every element and attribute from HTML 4.0.
Removed old style sheet classes from the pages, for a consistent look.
Changed attributes in source examples to lowercase.
Updated: TD:colspan,rowspan, TH:colspan,rowspan
Added: TD:%attrs,axis,headers,scope, TEXTAREA:%attrs,disabled,readonly,tabindex,accesskey,
TFOOT, TH:%attrs,axis,headers,scope, TITLE:%i18n, THEAD, TITLE:%i18n,
TR:%attrs, TT:%attrs, U:%attrs, UL:%attrs, VAR:%attrs
Updated: TABLE:cellpadding,cellspacing
Added: TABLE:%attrs,summary, TBODY, TD:%attrs,abbr
Updated: SAMPLE, OPTION:disabled, STRIKE
Added: SCRIPT:charset,defer,type, SELECT:%attrs,disabled,tabindex,
SMALL:%attrs, STRIKE:%attrs, STRONG:%attrs, STYLE:%attrs, SUB:%attrs,
SUP:%attrs,
Updated: PARAM:valuetype, S
Added: OL:%attrs, OPTGROUP, OPTION:%attrs, PARAM:type, PRE:%attrs, Q,
S:%attrs
Updated: INPUT:size,value, LINK:rel, META
Added: I:%attrs, IFRAME:%coreattrs,longdesc IMG:%attrs,longdesc,
INPUT:%attrs,accesskey,disabled,readonly,tabindex, INS,
ISINDEX:%coreattrs,%i18n, KBD:%attrs, LABEL, LEGEND, MAP:%attrs,
MENU:%attrs, META:scheme, NOFRAMES:%attrs, NOSCRIPT:%attrs
Updated: FRAME:frameborder,scrolling
Added: DIR:%attrs, DIV:%attrs, DL:%attrs, DT:%attrs, EM:%attrs, FIELDSET,
FONT:%coreattrs,%i18n, FORM:%attrs,ACCEPT,ACCEPT-CHARSET,
FRAME:%coreattrs,longdesc, FRAMESET:%coreattrs, HEAD:profile,
HR:%coreattrs,%events
Updated: CAPTION:align, COL:align, COLGROUP:align
Added: CENTER:%attrs, CITE:%attrs, CODE:%attrs,
COL:char,charoff,valign,width COLGROUP:char,charoff,valign,width, DD:%attrs,
DEL element
Added BIG:%attrs, BLOCKQUOTE:cite, BLOCKQUOTE:%attrs, BODY:%attrs, BR:%attrs
New elements: BUTTON
Added APPLET:object, AREA:accesskey, AREA:onblur, AREA:onfocus,
AREA:tabindex.
Changed the Perl script to add support for the attributes defined in DTD as
%coreattrs, %i18n and %events.
Added ABBR and ACRONYM elements.
Now happy with new look for homepage, logo, and the design for adding tips,
resources etc. to separate pages.
Finally going to do the contents...
Thanks to Stefan Körner for setting up a mirror site in
Germany.
Added DTD fragments to the HTML 4.0 elements
I'm proud to announce a book called "Working With Oracle Cartridges"
written by Steve Shiflett. Why I'm proud? Well, in this book Steve mentions
this site as a reference for HTML, and he also included a picture of the
site.
Finished new design/navigation
Updated elements to indicate if they are supported by HTML 4.0.
The new look and navigation system is going ok.
Started updating according to HTML 4.0.
Mirrors keep getting in, a new one in Italy yesterday and today one in
the USA... Great!
Thinking about a new look (v3.0).
Corrected some errors: a bad link in the BASE example and references to
BGSOUND.mid.
In all supporting files changed attribute names to lowercase and all the
values to include quotes.
Guess what? There's a new mirror site. Thanks to Adrian Lord, on the
- All Purpose Computing Consultants - site in
Australia.
From the new released HTML reference from Netscape I revised the site and
added/updated quite a lot of elements and attributes.
From the Netscape HTML reference:- SELECT: ONBLUR/ONCHANGE/ONFOCUS
- TEXTAREA: ONBLUR/ONCHANGE/ONFOCUS
- KEYGEN
- SERVER
- EMBED: PLUGINURL/UNITS
Corrected the BORDERCOLOR of the FRAME element.Added description of different JavaScript versions to the SCRIPT element.
Small addition to the HEIGHT and WIDTH attribute of APPLET.
Temporarily removed the OBJECT element, until I have a better, more complete
description.
From the Netscape HTML reference:- FONT: POINT-SIZE
- PLAINTEXT
- TABLE: COLS, HSPACE, VSPACE
- CAPTION: ALIGN=TOP|BOTTOM
- TR/TD: VALIGN=BASELINE
Hey, BASEFONT can be used in the BODY!
Added javascript: as a 'protocol' for the HREF attribute of the A element.
In the TABLE element a small addition to the descriptions of the HEIGHT and
WIDTH attributes.
Corrected an error in the META description, which said that the
Keywords and Description are values used with
http-equiv.
Netscape released a HTML reference, and in v4 the following is now
supported:- STYLE: TYPE plus a new value: text/javascript.
- LINK
- PRE: COLS|WRAP
- DL: COMPACT
- LI: TYPE=CIRCLE|DISC|SQUARE
Typo in UL example.
Again a new mirror, now in
Ohio, USA
by Martin T Hugo.
A new mirror, down under in
Australia by John
Woods.
Added to BODY: BACKGROUND take precedence over BGCOLOR.
Changed the name of Award2.gif to award2.gif, so Unix doesn't have a problem
finding it. And added al ALT text for this image in start.html.
Typo on palette.html 126 colors should be 216 colors.
Changed some old links from links.html into resources.html
I have added a page with some frequently asked
questions, Tips & Tricks.
Added a JavaScript 1.0 alternative for the image-changing script for the
TAG_index3.html page so Netscape versions before 3.0 don't choke.
A new mirror site in
Spain
by Juan Calderón Alonso.
Changed the support for WebTV to include their 1.2 version of the browser.
A new mirror site in
New Zealand,
provided by John Lawson.
Netscape supports the background attribute for the TABLE, TH, TD and
TR elements.
Added META keywords to every page.
Removed the relative URL possibility from the BASE element.
Added the NAME attribute to the IMG element.
WebTV changes to v1.2 of their specs:- Support for the NOEMBED and NOSCRIPT elements.
- Added WebTV icon to the SELECT and SPACER elements.
- WebTV uses a smaller font size with the SUB & SUP elements.
- Added the NOWRAP attribute to the TABLE element.
- removed the NOWRAP attribute from the TD element.
- Added the OnBlur, OnChange, OnFocus and OnSelect attributes to the TEXTAREA element.
Yes! Today I got my first award, thanks to
Webmaster T.
Mentioned that there are 216 colors in the Netscape palette.
Added the onerror event handler to the image element.
I changed the WebTV support to their version 1.2.
Removed the 
from the
LOWSRC attribute of the IMG element.
Added the mirror sites in Sweden and Italy to the list on the download page.
Replaced the h_line.gif and h_description.gif by the versions the Gif
Wizard made, which have a smaller file size.
Changed h_colornames.gif image to the short version, without the line
attached.
Added a after the icons so the attributes table doesn't have
icons overlapping the cell-border when the width of the images is larger
then the width of the name the attribute (a NS bug?).
Added a table to the INPUT element which identifies which attributes can
be used with each TYPE.
Added the ILAYER element (I guess I forgot
this one when I put the LAYER in).
Uploaded a new version, after I reread the descriptions and made some minor
changes, among which are additions to the INPUT element and several ALIGN
attributes.
Changed the
guestbook from a
fixed page to a guestbook supplied by
Created a separate log file to log all changes to the site.
Added some links on the resources page.
Two new mirror sites,
one in Sweden,
by Annica Tiger and
in Italy,
by Tommaso Gastaldi.
Restyled the site, and added a new navigational system. I think it is easier
to use, and looks better.I use JavaScript for loading the pages, so if your browser doesn't support this, you can keep on using the older layout.
Changed to another form-processing server,
Response-O-Matic for the
forms on this site.
Removed the LinkExchange banners from the pages because they didn't generate
much traffic.
A new page with a short introduction to style sheets
and the HTML attributes that are used for them.
Subscription service URLMinder added, a
notification service which will send an email when this site gets
updated.
Added ALT, WIDTH an HEIGHT attributes to every image on the site.
Description of the LAYER element added.
Added image with all the printable characters
from the latin-1 character set.
Added a form to submit addresses for the
resource page.
Corrected some dead links and other minor errors.
Some minor additions, and cleaned up a bit in the HTML coding.
A new icon added to signal elements and attributes that are present in the
HTML 3.2 standard.
A new look.
Updated elements and attributes to conform to the HTML 3.2 standard.
Initial version.
