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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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