Changes since the Nov 21 release of the HTML 4.0 spec

Structural changes

Content changes

General

The cover

About HTML 4.0

Introduction to HTML

SGML Tutorial

Document conformance

Global structure

Text

Tables

Objects

Major rewrite please review. While this section has changed allure significantly since the last version, the substantive changes are few:

Note that the subsection numbers have changed because the form control elements are no longer "under" the FORM element section.

Ian edited this section to give a more abstract view of forms and to provide a clearer understanding of (1) which controls are submitted with a form (called "successful controls") (2) which controls are "successful". Previous versions of this section only discussed this in the negative (i.e., what was not submitted with the form.

In particular, please review sections 17.2 (new, defines useful terms), 17.2.1 (new, lists available control types whatever element is used to create them), 17.4.1 (cleaner, shorter), and 17.13.

Also added:

Frames

Forms

Major rewrite please review. While this section has changed allure significantly since the last version, the substantive changes are few:

Note that the subsection numbers have changed because the form control elements are no longer "under" the FORM element section.

Ian edited this section to give a more abstract view of forms and to provide a clearer understanding of (1) which controls are submitted with a form (called "successful controls") (2) which controls are "successful". Previous versions of this section only discussed this in the negative (i.e., what was not submitted with the form.

In particular, please review sections 17.2 (new, defines useful terms), 17.2.1 (new, lists available control types whatever element is used to create them), 17.4.1 (cleaner, shorter), and 17.13.

DTD

Notes

Errata

New, empty section.

References