minimal HTML

altis@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Kevin Altis)

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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 13:16:57 -0800
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From: altis@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Kevin Altis)
Subject: minimal HTML

There are a number of HTML guides on the Web in addition to the HTML
specification at CERN telling users how to create HTML, but whenever I look
at the source of most HTML on the Web, it typically has the form of:

<TITLE>blah</TITLE>
<H1>blah</H1>
....rest of the file

That's legal, or at least works with existing clients. The question is
whether it is good style and/or will work with future clients. Also, there
is the issue of teaching new HTML authors good practices and following
those same practices for CGI gateways to archie, oracle... I would like to
propose that the HTML below is probably the minimal HTML file (assuming
mailto: is still okay ;-). HTML Guide writers, people writing translators
from latex, rtf, etc. to HTML, etc. might want to use this. Comments,
additions, tomatoes?

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>blah</TITLE>
<LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:username@host.domain">
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1>blah</H1>
..
..
..
</BODY>
</HTML>

ka