Thu, Jul 29, 2010
Chapter 6

Web Standards

Here we discuss some common Web standards, from HTML to JavaScript, that are designed to be cross-platform formats. You may find them useful for exchanging information between platforms with a minimum of fuss.

Table 6-16. HTML Resources
Description
W3 Consortium HTML page
High ASCII glyphs to HTML entities, by Wolfgang Husmann
Numeric codes for special characters in HTML pages
HTML Goodies
HTML Help by the Web Design Group
Webmonkey HTML collection
Table 6-17. Web Authoring and Standards Resources
General References, with Information on All or Most Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium, the official keepers of all things Web
HotWired's WebMonkey
Web Developer's Virtual Library authoring references
Web Reference
CNET's Builder.com
CSS, DHTML, XML, VRML
Dynamic HTML Lab
Web Design Group guide to Cascading Style Sheets
MacWeb3D, Web3D group focused on the Mac platform
Web 3D Consortium, keepers of the VRML and X3D specifications
W3 Consortium's XML pages
XML.org non-profit site
JavaScript, Java, and Perl
JavaGoodies has JavaScript information. (Go figure.)
JavaScripts.com also has JavaScript info.
Sun's Java pages
Apple's Mac OS Java pages
JARS.com for Java examples and reviews
The Perl Institute
The MacPerl pages