- From: Doug Jones <doug_b_jones@mac.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:47:20 -0500
- To: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Done. -Doug On 2007 Nov 28, at 12:00, Justin Thorp wrote: > > Doug can you add that to the wiki? > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Guide/ > > That way it'd be easier for others to propose/make changes and > suggestions. Plus then you have the revision history. > > - justin > > ****************** > Justin Thorp > US Library of Congress > Web Services - Office of Strategic Initiatives > e - juth@loc.gov > p - 202/707-9541 > >>>> Doug Jones <doug_b_jones@mac.com> 11/27/2007 9:35:47 PM >>> > > > On 2007 Nov 22, at 20:56, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> I thought it would be worthwhile getting started on this and >> presenting a proposal. So I wrote up a brief proposal for HTML 5 >> Authoring Guidelines and checked it into CVS. At this stage, it's >> very rough draft and effectively just an outline of how it could be >> written. >> >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/ >> >> -- >> Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software >> http://lachy.id.au/ >> http://www.opera.com/ >> > > Below is another possibility for an Introduction. > > HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) has been the World Wide Web's (WWW) > mark-up language. It's purpose has been to provide a method to > structure information presented on the web. > > Over the years, the capability of the web has grown and so has > potential for the capability of HTML. HTML5 maintains backwards > compatibility with earlier HTML specifications and adds new features > to structure information. > > This information may include the words of documents, static or > animated graphics, videos, and data. The structure is how information > is organized or configured, such as in chapters and paragraphs, as > well as primary content versus secondary content, such as navigation > bars or advertisements. > > Structure provides visual indications that aid comprehension of the > information. HTML5 improves the ability to communicate structure to > the impaired aurally and by other means. > > The information and its structure is commonly presented through static > web pages and dynamically generated web pages. Generated pages are > created on a client computer using Javascript, which is intimately > related to HTML. These pages may also be generated using a server-side > language such as ASP (Active Server Pages). JSP (Java Server Pages), > or PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor). The progress of dynamic page > generation has established web applications. HTML5 embraces web > applications and provides many tools for their creation. > > The HTML5 specification is written primarily to be clear for > implementors of user agents. This web developers guide encourages HTML > writing styles that will permit web pages to render now and in the > future in HTML5 capable browsers and other user agents. Also provided > will be methods for graceful backward compatibility of new HTML5 > features with HTML4. > > Web developers who are familiar with previous versions of HTML should > become acquainted with the differences of HTML5 from HTML4. > > Doug Jones > doug_b_jones@mac.com > > > >
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