HTML Points to remember

Here are the points that needs to be remembered. I will update whenever I find anything struct me...

• Current stable version of HTML is 4.01 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/)
• HTML 4.01 is old (24 Dec 1999)
• Latest is HTML5 which is in specification stage now.
• Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML
• Tim is director of World Wide Web Consortium.

Deprecated HTML Elements and attributes in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0

Deprecated HTML Elements in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0

• applet
• basefont
• blackface
• blockquote
• center
• dir
• embed
• font
• i
• isindex
• layer
• menu
• noembed
• s
• shadow
• strike
• u

Deprecated HTML Attributes in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0

• alink
• align
• background
• border
• color
• compact
• face
• height
• language
• link
• name
• noshade
• nowrap
• size
• start
• text
• type
• value
• version
• vlink
• width

Rendering Engine

Definition of rendering engine.

Layout engine	Release version	Preview version	Used by
Amaya	11.3.1	11.3-pre	Amaya
Gecko	1.9.2.6	2.0b6pre	All Mozilla software, including Firefox; SeaMonkey and Galeon; Camino; K-Meleon; Flock; Epiphany-gecko; GNU IceCat; Debian Iceweasel, Icedove,Iceape and Iceowl
KHTML		N/A	Konqueror
Presto	2.7.62	N/A	Opera; Opera Mobile, Nintendo DS & DSi Browser‎; Internet Channel
Prince	7.1	N/A	Prince XML
Trident	4.0 (IE 8)	5.0 (IE 9)	Internet Explorer and other Internet Explorer shells like Maxthon (Microsoft Windows operating systems only)
WebKit	533	N/A	Google Chrome, Maxthon 3, Safari (both desktop and mobile), Shiira, iCab 4,OmniWeb 5.5+, Epiphany, Adobe AIR, Midori, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 andCS5, Android browser, Palm webOS browser, Symbian S60 browser, OWB,Steam, Rekonq, Arora

html - definitions

In this post, I will post basic definitions of html generally used terms. If you find anything interesting please comment.

Web Browser

A web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

Rendering engine

A web browser engine, (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine), is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML,XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen. It "paints" on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer. A web browser engine is typically embedded in web browsers, e-mail clients, on-line help systems or other applications that require the displaying (and editing) of web content.

DOM

The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents.

Semantic HTML

Semantic HTML is a way of writing HTML that emphasizes the meaning of the encoded information over its presentation (look)

WWW

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.^[1] HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

What is new in html5

If you need a birds eyes view on new html5, here it goes

html5 gives new tags for the

drawing - canvas

media playback - audio, video

offline storage -

form controls - calendar, date, time, email, url, search

content specific elements - article, footer, header, nav, section

Few things to note

• html5 spec is still in specification stage
• not all browsers implemented all html5 tags (you can understand why from previous point)
• only few latest browsers support few tags

What you expect here

What you expect here?

Whenever I learn something related to html5, I want to share with some of the friends around other corner of the globe. This is my effort to give back whatever I took from the community.

If you find any errors and omissions please drop me a line because after all I'm in process of learning.