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. See my
personal log for complete details.
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.
