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Posted by Stan McCann on 03/17/06 21:50
David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:dvf1jl$hbi$1$830fa79d@news.demon.co.uk:
> about_that_time wrote:
>
>> Just trying to get started learning all this stuff. I've been
>> reading www.htmlgoodies.com which I think explains everything very
>> well,
>
> It doesn't. I seem to recall that last time I looked it had an
> average of one serious error per paragraph.
>
>> but is obviously very outdated, and www.w3schools.com, which is
>> mostly the opposite (up to date, but doesn't do very well at all of
>> explaining the whys and hows. . .well, especially the whys).
>
> W3Schools also tends to have errors - but far more subtle ones.
>
>> I've also checked out http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/, which seems
>> good, but not very comprehensive.
>
> Also out of date. The code is a mix of HTML 3.2 and 4.01
> Transitional. These days you should generally be writing HTML 4.01
> Strict (which discards most of the legacy stuff CSS can now handle).
>
>> Does anyone have a quick link that would work better than
>> these three?
>
> To be honest, I haven't found anything better then the
> specification. It's rather dry and not written as a tutorial, but
> its accurate and the information is hard to beat.
>
> http://w3.org/TR/html4/
>
Yep, that's what I use. It's fairly easy to look down the list of
elements. Then, when one looks like it might be appropriate, read the
details.
For much of the other details, usenet is the best. Subscribe to
several appropriate groups and read enough to determine the lamers from
the ones that know what they are talking about. Pay attention to what
the latter write.
Be careful of books. Every book I have reviewed uses a transitional
doctype and lots of deprecated elements and attributes. I am starting
to get serious about putting my notes together this summer and writing
my own book using zero deprecated items, HTML 4.01 strict (and why) and
CSS 2.1 pointing out the unsupported properties.
It's pretty sad when 2005 books teach 1995 methodology.
--
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