17.6.19963. eth-w4, olivier zaech, unizh1 5. www conference html & style html 2.0 html 3.0 is...

17.6.1996 3. ETH-W4, olivier zaech, uniZH

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5. WWW conference5. WWW conference5. WWW conference5. WWW conference

HTML & Style

• HTML 2.0

• HTML 3.0 is dead

• HTML 3.2 is announced


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HTML 3.2• W3C back in control, press release

• (new) agreement on standard

• IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Novell, SoftQuad, Spyglass, Sun



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HTML 3.2• wrong things removed• DTD already made• no spec yet, due 1st July• W3C - home page for working

drafts (www.w3.org)



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HTML 3.2 - new• STYLE• DIV• CENTER• TABLE (+ nested)• APPLET• FONT



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HTML 3.2 - new• OBJECT replaces APPLET

• classes (ShockWave, Python, Java, ActiveX- controls, inline-data)

• all existing objects will be fallbacks (e.g. IMG, APPLET)



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HTML 3.2 - new

• “the times of manually encoding HTML are definitely over”

• agreement on standards -competition in implementation



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HTML CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

• separation of content and style / layout

• no changes in already used HTML

• scalability and independence:screen - paper



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• font - properties (size, family, weight, style, height)

• color - properties (independence of screen resolution)



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• text - properties (word-spacing, alignement, indentation, padding …)

• box-properties (margin, border, float)

• classification - properties (block attributes)



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• implementations:MS-Internet Explorer, Netscape (?)

• testbed:Arena, Tamya (Amya?)


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