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I coded
many of the pages before I knew about SGML, or that HTML
is an SGML application, and that things like <b> and
<i>
elements are containers, so that a sequence such as:
normal <b>bold only <i>bold+italic</b> italic only</i> normal
is syntactically wrong,
because the containers overlap and thus improperly nest.
(See example pages which, in my ignorance,
I coded sloppily.)
Because the most popular web browser,
Internet Explorer, displays such material as desired: "normal bold only
bold+italic italic only normal", there is often little incentive to
make the HTML be structurally correct. This gives
HTML a reputation for being "sloppy", "formless", "anything goes", etc.
What's right?
normal <b>bold only <i>bold+italic</i></b> <i>italic only</i> normal
is syntactically correct, because the italic+bold text is in an italic container inside a bold container, and the italic-only text is in its own distinct container.
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In May 1998, I
reworked many of my pages
to be HTML 3.2 conformant. [Read W3C HTML 3.2 announcement letter
(07 May 1996): Click here!]
In other pages, however, I wished to retain
tagging which is not part of the HTML 3.2 standard: especially,
bgcolor attribute
in <td> elements, to add
color.
I was able to validate these remaining pages
as "transitional" HTML 4.0.
[Note 08Aug01: I have now validated most of the pages on this site with a second
HTML validator, from Web Design Group, so that
this site is double validated.] I also subject the entire website to my own further standards of normation (see, e.g.,
Perl script: titles.pl).
I think I can with some warrant apply to this website the old Revox tape recorder company
advertising slogan:
It's built like a brick shipyard
Please see my web design criteria page, for more thoughts about how to make HTML pages that both conform to standards and also are attractive.
Note: the graphics on this website definitely are not professional quality. I have cobbled them together with primitive means. I ask you to judge them accordingly, and try to see what these pages are trying to be if I could devote my prime time to working on them and bring appropriate resources to bear.
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11 September 2002.
he material below is no longer current.
It is from the time when I worked on this
website from a single computer (the G6-200), and I had my "canonical" source files,
and all my backups stored there. (See picture of my workspace,
Above
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I started working on this website at a time when I worked at home for my paying job, so that my home computer
was "home" to my paid business employment computer files as well as my personal website source files.
(I early came to appreciate the virtues of "relative links"!) Throughout each
day, something I was doing for work would suggest something to do with my personal website, and
vice-versa. So what is below here on this web page largely reports things no longer current.
Today, my connection with a particular computer is attenuated. My website has become more like a "floating world" which I can install on any Windows computer in perhaps an hour (to make the necessary adaptations to make it at home on a UNIX machine would take a little effort, mostly due to the difference in text-file line end character sequences).
With
the demise of SGML, some of
the programs listed below are no longer highly relevant (if they still exist at all, esp. OMNIMARK LE). Most of the
SGML pages on this site are now "frozen", since I don't have the tools or remember how to
change them, and nobody would look at them any more anyway. (I had hoped SGML on the Web,
led by Yuri Rubinsky's Panorma SGML browser plugin, would
flourish, but that did not happen.) Since
my job no longer requires me to make an institutional website work with a variety
of web browsers, I no longer "collect" new browser releases....
Best wishes! I'd like
to hear what you're up to!
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