- From: <Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 06:28:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Larry Masinter wrote: > I would be happy to include a reference to a "Tag Soup spec" if > I could find one that would be suitable for a references list > in an RFC. I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to include such references. But if you decide to do that, I suppose the descriptions (not specifications!) are currently the most detailed: http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/TAG_index2.html (or the frames version http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/index.html ) http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html http://www.htmlcompendium.org/0frame.htm > I'm uneasy about recommending one popular HTML book > over another, and can't find any stable reference to something > that would constitute an "official guide to Mozilla and/or MSIE > HTML tags". I thought about: > > [MOZ] "HTML Tag Reference", Netscape, 1997; available at > <http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/index.htm>. > > but couldn't find an MSIE equivalent. That Netscape document actually says "Last updated: 1/26/98", where the last part is probably an odd way of writing 1998-01-26. Neither Netscape nor Microsoft (or other browser manufacturer) has bothered documenting the HTML processed by their browsers adequately, but Microsoft has more detailed and up-to-date information: "HTML Elements", http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp I wouldn't rely on the stability of that URL too much. If I remember correctly, I have at least twice noticed that the URL which used to refer to Microsoft's description of HTML as eaten by IE stopped working. To see what I mean, use the URL http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.htm mentioned in the reputable Web Authoring FAQ at http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#html-tags It's probably the previous URL which was used not long ago; using it now causes a redirection after which you find yourself in a maze: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fnf.asp -- Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html
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