The HTML Sourcebook

A Complete Guide to HTML

Publisher: Wiley, 1995, 416 pages

ISBN: 0-471-11849-4

Last modified: July 19, 2021, 3:38 a.m.

Synopsis

Your total guide to online publishing using HTML.

The HTML Sourcebook is an indispensable resource for authors, publishers, marketers, educators, and virtually anyone interested in publishing on the World Wide Web. Written by the author of one of the most accessed HTML online tutorials, it provides all the essentials for preparing character-based, as well as graphically based hypertext documents for online publication. With the help of Ian S. Graham's clear, step-by-step guidelines and priceless pointers, you'll quickly learn how to:

Master all HTML commands and the URL syntax
Create and edit HTML documents for Mosaic, Netscape, Lynx, and all other WWW browser
Translate documents from other formats such as Word or WordPerfect into HTML documents
Link your hypertext documents to graphics, video, and sound files
Choose hypertext servers for UNIX, Macintosh, and PC platforms
Construct "cgi-bin" programs to create sophisticated interactive documents
Access and use all the browser, editors, translators, and other valuable World Wide Web tools, currently available online

The HTML Sourcebook also features an array of examples taken from business, education, science, and other fields. Including both code and screen captures of the resulting pages as they appear on the Web, the examples let you see firsthand what well-designed pages hypertext documents and their underlying HTML structures look like.

Whether you want to deliver online documentation for software packages, distribute sales catalog information, access library databases, or expand the audience for a hy7pertext comic strip. The HTML Sourcebook is your complete guide to composing and distributing documents on the World Wide Web.

Introduction

Uniform Resource Locators
The Hypertext Transport Protocol
The Hypertext Markup Language
Overview of the Book
Acknowledgements
Dedication

Introduction to the Hypertext Markup Language

Basic Outline of the HyperText Markup Language
Example 1: A Simple HTML Document

HTML Element
Head and Title Elements
Body Element
Highlighting Elements
Paragraphs
Unordered Lists
Horizontal Role Element
Lessons from Example 1

Example 2: Images and Hypertext Links

The Example Document
Example Document Rendered
Anchors
Partial URLs
Creating Links
Hypertext Links: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Lessons from Example 2

Example 3: Home Pages

Title and Heading
Text Portion
Organization
Icons
Uniform Resource Locators
Lessons from Example 3

Example 4: Collections of Hypertext Documents

Pre Element
Organization
Archiving
Lessons from Example 4

Example 5: Images, Movies, and Sound Files

Linking Large Images
Lessons from Example 5

Example 6: Fill-In Forms

Form Element
Form Restrictions
Lessons from Example 6

References

HTML in Detail

Introduction to HTML

Allowed Characters in HTML documents
Special Characters
Comments in HTML Documents
HTML as a MIME Type

HTML Elements and Markup Tags

Case-Sensitivity
Empty Elements
Element Nesting
Unknown Elements or Attributes
Overall Document Structure

Hypertext Markup Language Specification: Element by Element

Key to This Section
Head Element
Body Element
List Elements
Character-Related Elements
Character Highlighting Elements
Logical Highlighting
Physical Highlightning
HTML+ Elements

References

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

Allowed Characters in URLs

Disallowed Characters
Special Characters

Example of a Uniform Resource Locator

Protocol
Address and Port Number
Resource Location

Partial URLs
URL Specifications

Ftp URLs
Gopher URLs
HTTP URLs
Mailto URLs
News URLs
Telnet/tn3270/rlogin URLs
WAIS URLs
File URLs

References

The HTTP Protocol and the Common Gateway Interface

The HTTP Protocol

Example HTTP Client-Server Session
User Authentication, Data Encryption, and Access Control

HTTP Methods and Headers Reference

HTTP Methods
HTTP Request Headers
HTTP Response Headers

The Common Gateway Interface

Sending Data from the Client to the Server
Sending Data to the Gateway Program from the Server
Returning Data from the Gateway Program to the Server
The POST Method and Standard Input

Security Considerations
References

HTML and CGI Tools

Images in HTML Documents

X-Bitmap Images
X-Pixelmaps
GIF Image Files
Reducing Image File Size: The Color Map
Reducing Image File Size: Rescaling Images
Transparent GIF Images
Active Images
Creating the Image Database
Icon Archive Sites

Client-Side Executable Programs

Sending the Script to the Client
Configuring the Client
Security Issues

Server-Side Document Includes

Include Command Format
Example of Server-Side Includes

HTML Utility Programs

Dtd2html
HTML Table Converter
Hypermail
MHonArc: Mail to HTML Archive
Table of Contents Generator
TreeLink

CGI Utility Functions

CGI Email Handler
CGI Feedback Form
Determining Client Software
Convert UNIX Man Pages to HTML
Processing Queries and FORM Packages

Database CGI Gateway Programs

WAIS Gateways
WWWWAIS
Gateways to Structured Query Language Databases
Macintosh Search Tools: TR-WWW

CGI Archive Sites
Database Gateway References

HTML Editors and Document Translators

HTML Editors

Simple Text Editors (Macintosh, PC, UNIX)
Alpha (Macintosh)
BBedit HTML Extensions (Macintosh)
CU_HTML.DOT (PC-Word for Windows)
Emacs (UNIX, PC)
GT_HTML.DOT (PC-Word for Windows)
HoTMetaL (PC-Windows, UNIX)
HTML Assistant (PC-Windows)
HTMLed (PC-Windows)
HTMLedit (Macintosh)
HTML Editor (Macintosh)
HTML for Word 2.0 (PC-Word for Windows)
Htmltext (UNIX)
NextStep HTML-Editor (NeXT)
S.H.E. (Macintosh)
TkHTML (UNIX)
TkWWW (UNIX)

Document Translators and Converters

Asc2html
Charconv
Cyberleaf
FasTag
Frame2html
HLPDK
Hyperlatex
Latex2html
Mif2html
Miftran
Mm2html
Ms2html.pl
Ps2html
RosettaMan
Rtftohtml
RTFTOHTM
Scribe2html
Striphtml
TagWrite
Tex2rtf
Texi2html
WPTOHTML
Wp2x
WebMaker

HTML Verifiers

Sgmls
HTML Validation Site

Link Verifiers

Linkcheck
Verify_Links

Web Browsers and Helper Applications

Accessing Software
PC Platform Browsers

MSDOS Browsers: DosLynx
Windows and OS/2 Browsers
Helper Applications

Macintosh Platform Browsers

MacWeb
Macintosh Helper Applications

UNIX and VAX/VMS Platform Browsers

Batch mode browser (UNIX)
Chimera (UNIX)
Emacs-w3 mode (UNIX, VMS, others)
LineMode Browser (UNIX, VMS)
Lynx (UNIX, VMS)
MidasWWW (UNIX, VMS)
Mosaic for X-Windows (UNIX)
Mosaic (TueV 2.4.2)
Quadralay GWHIS Browser (UNIX)
Rashty VMS Client (VMS)
Tkwww (UNIX)
ViolaWWW (UNIX)
UNIX Helper Packages

NeXT Platform Browsers

The CERN NeXT Browser
Omniweb

Amiga Browser: AMosaic
Coming Attractions

IBM OS/2 Browser: Web Explorer
MicroMind SlipKnot
Netscape Communication Corp.

HTTP Servers and Server Utilities

Basic Server Issues

UNIX Servers
VMS Servers
Windows NT or OS/2
Windows or Macintosh
Behind a Firewall?

List of Server Software

CERN HTTP Server (UNIX, VMS)
CL-HTTP (Symbolics LISP Machines)
CMS HTTPD (CM/CMS)
DECthread HTTP Server (VAX/VMS)
GN Gopher/HTTP Server (UNIX)
GWHIS HTTP Server (UNIX)
HTTPS (Windows NT)
Jungle (UNIX)
MacHTTP (Macintosh)
NCSA HTTPD (UNIX)
OS2HTTPD (OS/2)
Plexus (UNIX)
SerWeb (Windows 3.1)
Web4Ham (Windows 3.1)
WinHTTPD: NCSA HTTPD for Windows (Windows 3.1)

Coming Attractions

BASIS WEBserver
MDMA: Multithreaded Daemon for Multimedia Access
Netscape Netsite

Server Support Programs

Getstats
Gwstats
Webstats
Wusage
Wwwstat

Real-World Examples

Electronic E-Print Servers
OncoLink

Introduction
The OncoLink Implemention
Use of OncoLink

Views of the Solar System

Background
HTML Issues
Summary

NetBoy — Choice of an Online Generation
San Francisco Reservations' World Wide Web Page

Introduction
Why on the World Wide Web?
Designing the WWW Page
Final Notes on SFR

The ISO Latin-1 Character Set
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
Finding Software Using Archie
Listening at a TCP/IP Port

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