HTML
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HTML has been in use in the World Wide Web information infrastructure
since 1990, and specified in various informal documents. The
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... text/html media type was first officially defined by the IETF HTML
working group in 1995 in [HTML20 ...
... HTML working group closed Sep 1996, and work on defining
HTML moved to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The proposed
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... UPLOAD] was described in [FORMDATA]. In addition, a reformulation of
HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0[XHTML1] was developed.
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... HTML32] notes "This specification defines HTML version 3.2. HTML 3.2
aims to capture recommended practice as of early '96 and as such to
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... aims to capture recommended practice as of early '96 and as such to
be used as a replacement for HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866hist(-> 2854))." Subsequent
specifications for HTML ...
... HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866hist(-> 2854))." Subsequent
specifications for HTML describe the differences in each version.
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In addition to the development of standards, a wide variety of
additional extensions, restrictions, and modifications to HTML were
popularized by NCSA's Mosaic system and subsequently by the
competitive implementations of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
Internet Explorer ...
... optional parameter "charset" refers to the character
encoding used to represent the HTML document as a sequence of
bytes. Any registered IANA charset may be used, but UTF-8 ...
... Interoperability considerations:
HTML is designed to be interoperable across the widest possible
range of platforms and devices of varying capabilities. However,
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... there are contexts (platforms of limited display capability, for
example) where not all of the capabilities of the full HTML
definition are feasible. There is ongoing work to develop both a
modularization of HTML ...
... HTML
definition are feasible. There is ongoing work to develop both a
modularization of HTML and a set of profiling capabilities to
identify and negotiate restricted (and extended) capabilities.
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... identify and negotiate restricted (and extended) capabilities.
Due to the long and distributed development of HTML, current
practice on the Internet includes a wide variety of HTML ...
... HTML, current
practice on the Internet includes a wide variety of HTML variants.
Implementors of text/html interpreters must be prepared to be
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... Implementors of text/html interpreters must be prepared to be
"bug-compatible" with popular browsers in order to work with many
HTML documents available the Internet.
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... defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML
4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html.
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... Applications which use this media type:
The first and most common application of HTML is the World Wide
Web; commonly, HTML documents contain URI references ...
... The first and most common application of HTML is the World Wide
Web; commonly, HTML documents contain URI references [URI] to
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... [HTTP]. Many gateway applications provide HTML-based interfaces to
other underlying complex services ...
... other underlying complex services. Numerous other applications now
also use HTML as a convenient platform-independent multimedia
document representation.
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... Magic number:
There is no single initial string that is always present for
HTML files. However, Section 5 below gives some guidelines for
recognizing HTML files.
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... HTML files. However, Section 5 below gives some guidelines for
recognizing HTML files.
File extension ...
... Author/Change controller:
The HTML specification is a work product of the World Wide Web
Consortium's HTML Working Group ...
... The HTML specification is a work product of the World Wide Web
Consortium's HTML Working Group. The W3C has change control ...
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Further information:
HTML has a means of including, by reference via URI, additional
resources (image ...
... resources (image, video clip, applet) within the base document. In
order to transfer a complete HTML object and the included
resources in a single MIME object, the mechanisms of [MHTML ...
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Because of the availability within HTML itself for using character
entity references, documents that use a wide repertoire of characters
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... Recognizing HTML files ...
... Documents conformant to HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 will start
with a DOCTYPE declaration "<!DOCTYPE HTML ...
... HTML 4.0 will start
with a DOCTYPE declaration "<!DOCTYPE HTML" near the beginning,
before the "<html". These dialects are case insensitive. Files may
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... In addition, the introduction of scripting languages and interactive
capabilities in HTML 4.0 introduced a number of security risks
associated with the automatic execution of programs written by the
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... Raggett, D., "HTML 3.2 Reference Specification", W3C Recomendation, January 1997. Available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32>. ...
... Raggett, D., et al., "HTML 4.0 Specification", W3C Recommendation, December 1997. Available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40- 19980424> ...
... Raggett, D., et al., "HTML 4.01 Specification", W3C Recommendation, December 1999. Available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401>. ...
... Palme, J., Hotmann, A. and N. Shelness, "MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)", RFC 2557prop, March 1999. ...
... Nebel, E. and L. Masinter, "Form-based File Upload in HTML", RFC 1867hist(-> 2854), November 1995. ...
... "XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language: A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0", W3C Recommendation, January 2000. Available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 ...