HTML is the language of the web. If you need to build a web page, then you'll have to start with HTML. The most recent specification: HTML 4.01 defines several new features including expanded support for multimedia, style sheets (including aural style sheets, and the new CSS specifications), scripting, and new accessibility and internationalization standards. HTML 4.01 also includes updated support for familiar features such as text formatting, hyperlinking, forms, frames, and tables, and supports the very latest browser versions including Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6 and Opera 5.
HTML Programmer's Reference (4.01 Edition) covers all these new and established features in detail and provides you with the knowledge and the skills to write great web pages that will be supported by all major browsers.
Chris Ullman is a Computer Science graduate who came to Wrox five years ago, when 14.4 modems were the hottest Internet technology and Netscape Navigator 2.0 was a groundbreaking innovation. Since then he's applied his knowledge of HTML, server-side web technologies, Java and Visual Basic to developing, editing and authoring books.
Born in England in 1982, Sean Palmer is an invited expert in three W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Working Groups, currently concentrating on accessibility applications of the Semantic Web, and the XML Accessibility Guidelines. He also dabbles in and occasionally develops RDF, XHTML, URIs, and World Wide Web architecture in general, as well as being a Working Group member of the recently founded Semantic Web Agreement Group (SWAG). Sean can be contacted at mailto:sean@blogspace.com.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Simon Oliver is currently responsible for eCommerce Strategy and Technology at a NASDAQ-listed specialist pharmacy company. His track record in commercial software development stretches back almost 20 years and he has been professionally involved in Internet technologies and online application development since the mid-1990's.
Stuart Conway is a web engineer currently working at Redmond Technology Partners LLC in Bellevue, WA. Stuart develops Internet and Intranet business applications for outsourced client development efforts. These applications include Intranet Communications, Advertising Sales, Sales Development, Knowledgebase, Collaboration Tools, B-2-B Web Applications and others using ASP, XML/XSL, and JavaScript.
Cassandra Greer is currently documentation Queen at Mozquito Technologies in Munich, Germany. She spends her days running around after programmers and W3C people trying to figure out what the heck they are trying to do. She spends her nights writing down what she figured out during the day. Her goal is to write it (whatever it is) so that normal people can understand it.
Gary Damschen is a lead programmer analyst for Kelly Services, Inc. Although he spent many years in a successful career in Radiation Safety, computers always found their way into what he was doing. Finally, he succumbed to the siren call and became an IT professional after teaching himself HTML and starting a web consulting business. He now develops online training delivery systems and courses.
Daniel Maharry currently lives in Birmingham where he has worked for Wrox Press - both there and in India - for three and a half years as an itinerant editor and diarist with a penchant for the obscure topics that never sell many books. With any luck, this tome will see him starting to come out of that particular malaise.
Jon Stephens was a freelance Web developer/consultant for 4 years, until recently accepting a position with the Micro-Cap News Network, doing JavaScript and DHTML GUI programming and maintaining PHP/MySQL-based back ends for MCNN's sites. He studied mathematics at East Tennessee State University, computer science at Northeast State Technical College, and is a Certified Master JavaScript and HTML Programmer. He is a long-time participant in the Builder Buzz developers' site, where he serves as a volunteer community leader.
