HTML 2.0: Review Materials Available

"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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OK folks, in answer to all the noise about the HTML specification
being out of date...

I have been working with Tim Berners-Lee and Dave Raggett, as well
as numerous other members of the research and industry sectors of the
WWW community.

The first release of the HTML 2.0 specification materials is hereby
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                                            HTML Specification Review Materials
                              HTML SPECIFICATION
                                       
Status: In Review

   The HTML specification was last published as an internet draft in June of
   1992. Since then, there has been an enormous increase in the usage of HTML,
   and certain new features have emerged. Widespread commercial support for
   HTML is on the horizion, and while there is a relatively stable set of
   features in current practice, there is no document that specifies them.
   
   These materials comprise an effort to promote interoperability among
   developing HTML implementations, and to investigate interactions with
   implementations that support more or fewer features than the current
   practice.
   
   I consider the document at "first draft" stage -- most of the technical
   issues have been thought out (but not widely reviewed), but there has been
   very little emphasis on editorial matters.
   
Review and Publication Process

   The WWW technology will probably be moderated by an international consortium
   in the future, but since the need for this document is immediate, it will be
   published as an SGML Open Technical Report. An SGML Open technical committee
   is forming. Contact Dan Connolly <connolly@hal.com>, or Yuri Rubinski,
   <yuri@sq.com> for details.
   
   As usual, the document will be publicly available throughout the review
   process, and comments may be submitted through internet mail to the editors
   or to the <www-talk@info.cern.ch>mailing list.
   
  TODO LIST[1]
  
The Contents as Hypertext[2]

The whole document

      Plain text[3]
      
      Postscript[4]
      
      Compressed tar file of all the .html nodes[5]
      
Related Materials

      HTML Test Suite[6]
      
      Toward Closure on HTML [7] (see also the www-talk mailing list archive[8]
      for responses)
      
      Design Notebook[9]
      
                                                             Daniel W. Connolly
                                                               connolly@hal.com
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<title>HTML Specification Review Materials</title>
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<body>

<h1>HTML Specification</h1>

<H2>Status: In Review</H2>

<p> The HTML specification was last published as an internet draft in
    June of 1992. Since then, there has been an enormous increase in
    the usage of HTML, and certain new features have
    emerged. Widespread commercial support for HTML is on the
    horizion, and while there is a relatively stable set of features
    in current practice, there is no document that specifies them.

<p> These materials comprise an effort to promote interoperability
    among developing HTML implementations, and to investigate
    interactions with implementations that support more or fewer
    features than the current practice.

<p> I consider the document at "first draft" stage -- most of the
    technical issues have been thought out (but not widely reviewed),
    but there has been very little emphasis on editorial matters.

<H2>Review and Publication Process</H2>

<p> The WWW technology will probably be moderated by an international
    consortium in the future, but since the need for this document is
    immediate, it will be published as an SGML Open Technical
    Report. An SGML Open technical committee is forming. Contact Dan
    Connolly <code>&lt;connolly@hal.com&gt;</code>, or Yuri Rubinski,
    <code>&lt;yuri@sq.com&gt;</code> for details.

<p> As usual, the document will be publicly available throughout the
    review process, and comments may be submitted through internet
    mail to the editors or to the
    <code>&lt;www-talk@info.cern.ch&gt;</code> mailing list.

<h3><a href="notes/TODO.html">TODO List</a></h3>

<H2><A href="HTML_TOC.html">The Contents as Hypertext</a></H2>

<H2>The whole document</H2>

<UL>
<LI><A
HREF="HTML.txt">Plain text</A>
<LI><A
HREF="HTML.ps.Z">Postscript</A>
<LI><A
HREF="html-spec.tar.gz">Compressed tar file of all the .html nodes</A>
</UL>


<H2>Related Materials</H2>


<ul>
<li><a href="../html-test/README.html">HTML Test Suite</a>
<li><a href="../drafts/html-direction.html">
<cite>Toward Closure on HTML</cite>
</a>
(see also <a href="http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/www-talk-1994q2.subject-index.html">the www-talk mailing list archive</a> for responses)

<li><a href="../drafts/html-design.html">Design Notebook</a>
</ul>

<address>
Daniel W. Connolly<br>
connolly@hal.com<br>
$Id: index.html,v 1.5 1994/06/04 01:36:20 connolly Exp $
</address>

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