(Dates are expressed in simplified ISO notation: year-month-day. The revisions are listed shortly in chronological order, from newest to oldest.)
2004-09-05
Removed the zipped version (since
my entire site is now
available as zipped).
2002-06-18
Fixed ISINDEX example.
2001-03-04
Some fixes, including corrections to the discussion of URLs.
2000-10-20
Added a note about onconsistent browser support to START in OL
and VALUE in LI inside OL, making it practically not recommendable to
try to start item numbering at 0.
2000-05-15
Added a note about align="middle" for img.
2000-05-08
Added a discussion of relative URLs and otherwise improved
the section on URLs.
2000-01-31
Added a link to Michael Hamm's
HTML Tutorial
-- Writing Web Pages.
2000-01-10
Added a link to Mikodocs HTML Quick List.
1999-12-16
Added a link to WDG validator.
Updated notes on the FONT tag (particularly as regards to SIZE).
1999-11-12
Added a warning that percentages in AREA elements are
often misunderstood by browsers (as pixel values).
1999-09-30
Fixed links to resources at Javasoft.
1999-09-21
Modified the way Boutell's
"dusty old FAQ"
is referred to and commented on.
1999-08-13
Fixed and extended a bit
Using tables to represent menus.
1999-06-10
Fixed some errors in the description of alignment
attributes for table cells.
1999-04-09
Removed link to Webtechs.
1999-03-29
Fixed a rotten link to a nice document
How do I stop my background image from tiling?.
1999-03-17
Updated the discussion of URL encodings to take
RFC 2396 into account.
1999-03-11
Removed reference to
HTML Elements List
by
Sandia National Laboratories.
They took it away - and it was really old.
1999-03-01
Rephrased the statement about FONT FACE being "nonstandard".
1999-02-23
Added a link to
Dan's
Web Tips.
1998-12-10
Changed the recommendations on META. Keywords are not that useful.
1998-12-08
Changed the discussion of media types:
1998-08-19
Made the downloadable version use
the filename format m_n.html
instead of m.n.html in order
to make it useable on systems with DOS filename format, too.
(I did not want to change the filename format used in the
online version, since there are lots of documents around
which refer to the names using the old format.)
1998-07-14
Added a link to my
list of links to
tutorials and other documents about forms.
Added an annotated link to
Laura Lemay's
MIME Types and File Extensions.
1998-07-06
Added a link to my
document
about "special Windows characters
and to my character set tutorials.
It's probably not advisable to use SMALL within SUB, so removed
it from an example in the text and from a separate example.
1998-07-02
Changed wrotten (!) link to article about Sisyphos to something
more useful,
Jacob Nielsen's alertbox on linkrot.
Changed the example on using B to something more meaningful.
1998-06-17
Changed "eg" to "e.g." and "ie" to "i.e." for readability and
translatability.
1998-06-15
Added a link to my
Choices in HTML forms - and fixed examples
according to the advice given there!
1998-06-09
Changed the form in
Checking your HTML to use the W3C validator instead of the outdated
KGV validator.
Added links to my
Choices in HTML forms.
1998-05-27
Added a direct link to AltaVista's page on META elements
(it's somewhat hidden there).
1998-05-26
Fixed a link to WebReference's
glossaries
page.
Added ",1998" to the
copyright notice.
Fixed the form in the subsection,
due to changes which have been made to the translation service.
1998-05-22
Added a link to a
discussion of the problems caused by tilde (~) in URLs.
1998-05-20
Changed Information about services for using HTML forms
due to discontinuation in Meng Weng Wongs service.
1998-05-11
Removed link to Oleg K's HTML shop. It seems to have vanished
from cyberspace, except for
a
copy which is probably unofficial.
1998-05-08
Fixed some typos and updated link to
a
Cicero site
in
an example.
1998-05-06
Improved information about checking HTTP headers in section
Media types. The Telnet method doesn't seem
to work on Telnet clients on PCs, so it is better to
Delorie's service.
Also added a link to
HTML
4.0 in Netscape and Explorer and to
Internet glossaries page by
WebReference.
1998-04-27
Updated links to FlashBase
in Information about services for using HTML
forms
1998-04-03
Substantial changes to the separate
document on news: URLs,
due to changes which seem to have been made
in the query syntax of
DejaNews.
1998-03-24
Updated the link to
Heikki Kantola's
list
of validators and checkers.
1998-02-25
Added information about
FlashBase
to Information
about services for using HTML forms
1998-02-23
Typo fixes.
1998-02-17
Changed info about IE rendering VAR badly - IE 4.0 seems to have
that fixed.
Added a link to the tutorial
How the web works: HTTP and CGI explained
by
Lars Marius Garshol.
1998-02-09
Added information about
The SGML Handbook into the section
about the HTML 3.2 spec, and reorganized that section a bit.
1998-01-27
Added a link to
Multipart Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
which lists several commonly used unregistered media types.
1998-01-26:
Added a link to
Jacob Nielsen's
excellent alertbox
Using Link Titles to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going
1998-01-15:
Added a link to Delorie's search engine simulator
(to descr. of META).
1998-01-08:
Added information about deprecation of elements and attributes in
HTML 4.0 and changed examples to avoid deprecated features.
1998-01-07:
Added a very short history of the document, with a link to this
revision history.
Fixed a bug in the description of the BASE element.
The bug was caused by changing a URL in an example without realizing
the effect on the meaning of the BASE element where it occurs.
1997-12-29:
Added anchor name omitquotes to make
comments on allowable quote omission referrable.
Fixed a link to "HTML 1.0" from
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
to
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
(due to change made at the W3C site).