HTML Authoring Tips for Internet Explorer 2.0
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HTML 2.0 is the current standard for authoring content for Web pages. It was specifically designed to deal with creating general purpose documentation that can easily support being viewed by virtually any type of computer. It works well for displaying documents on text-based systems, as well as fully graphical systems. Unfortunately, by taking such a lowest common denominator approach to document layout, it makes it more difficult to create creative and exciting documents that take advantage of the abilities of high-end graphical operating systems.
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0 includes support for some useful HTML tags and attributes that are not part of HTML 2.0. These tags allow the author to better control the visual layout of documents.
Unfortunately, there is no competency test that people need to take before taking advantage of some of these new features. This often results in people creating sites that can look pretty bad. I'm sure you've run across some of these from time to time.
Here, I've created a set of pages that are intended to illustrate some of the aspects and issues of the utilization of these features. Where appropriate, I try to show improper usages, and give you some ideas on how to avoid that on your pages.
Just click on one of the subject titles in the navigation bar below to go to the pages that deal with that topic. Click on the globe image to go back to the title page.
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