HTML-WG Historical (Obsolete or Expired) Documents

Products of the Working Group

"HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0",
Dave Raggett, 28 Mar 1995.

Text version (gzip'd)
HTML version (in UK)

Status

This document has expired. It will be supplanted by a set of smaller documents which can be discussed and progressed toward standardization separately. However, the goal remains to eventually have all of the HTML 3 features implemented.

"Character Set Considered Harmful",
D. Connolly, 02 May 1995.

<draft-ietf-html-charset-harmful-00.txt>

Abstract

The term character set is often used to describe a ditigal representation of text. ASCII is perhaps the most widely deployed representation of text, and in the interest of interoperability, information systems on the Internet traditionally rely on it exclusively.

The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) introduces Internet Media Types, including text representations besides ASCII. The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) used in the World-Wide Web is a proposed Internet Media Type. But HTML is also an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

In the MIME and SGML specifications, the discussion of characters representation is notoriously complex, and apparently subtly inconsistent or incompatible. This document presents a collection of terms intended to reconcile the two specifications and serve as a basis for rigorous discussion of characters and their digital representations.

"Compound Documents in HTML",
P. Burchard, D. Raggett, 22 Nov 1995.

Text draft 00
Other formats

Abstract

This specification provides an HTML implementation of a simple compound document architecture for the World Wide Web, based on a new <EMBED> element.

"HTML and Style Sheets",
B. Bos, D. Raggett, H. Lie, 23 Jan 1995.

Text draft 01

Abstract

The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. This specification extends HTML to provide support for style rules expressed in separately specified notations. It is no longer necessary to extend HTML when new style are needed. Style rules can be (a) included with individual HTML elements to which they apply, (b) grouped together in the document head, or (c) placed in associated style sheets. This specification does not specify particular style sheet notations, leaving that to other specifications.

"Hypertext links in HTML",
M. Maloney, L. Quin, 15 Jan 1996.

Text draft 00

Abstract

The hypertext link mechanism is the connective tissue used to weave the World Wide Web. A hypertext link is an object which specifies a connection between any arbitrary addressable objects, locations, or resources.

Proposals by Individuals to the Working Group

"Packaging Aggregate HTML Objects Inside MIME",
A. Hopmann, 20 Feb 1996.

<draft-hopmann-html-email-packaging-00.txt>

Abstract

Although HTML was designed within the context of MIME, more than the specification of HTML as defined in RFC 1866 is needed for two electronic mail user agents to be able to interoperate using HTML as a document format. These issues include the naming of objects that are normally referred to by URIs, and the means of aggregating objects that go together. This draft describes a set of guidelines that will allow conforming mail user agents to be able to send, deliver and display these HTML objects. In addition it is hoped that these techniques will also apply to the wider category of URI-enabled objects.

"The META Tag of HTML",
D. Musella, 22 Dec 1995.

<draft-musella-html-metatag-01.txt>

Abstract

This document defines a strict synopsis for the META Tag of HTML. The grammar is extended to the contents of the HTTP-EQUIV field, defining a set of words to use to allow document cataloging.