Some Resource Notes
Browser Links
from Webmonkey:
Windows Browsers
Mac Browsers
Linux/Unix Browsers
Other Browsers
- roughly 90% of web surfers use a Version 4 or 5 browser
DOM (Document Object Model)
Webmonkey's Introduction to the DOM
- not a language, but a concept
- opens browser objects to action from CSS/P, JavaScript, X/HTML, XML, etc.
JavaScript
Webmonkey JS quick tutorial
Webmonkey JS full tutorial
- used to manipulate document objects
- JavaScript usually goes between the </title> tag and the </head> tag.
- hide js from older browsers with a <!-- comment --> tag.
CSS/CSS-P
W3C CSS Home Page
W3C CSS2 Specification
Webmonkey CSS1 Tutorial
Webmonkey CSS-P/CSS2 Tutorial
CSS Talking (alistapart.com)
Fear of Stylesheets (alistapart.com)
glish.com Cross Browser CSS
Eric Meyer's CSS pages
- used to manipulate document objects
- used to control layout and spacing as well as style
- CSS-P not available to users with older browsers (NS4/IE5)
XML/XHTML
Webmonkey on XML
Webmonkey on XHTML
- XML is case sensitive, tags all lowercase
- XHTML is an interim step towards standards compliance with XML
- closed tag sets, id=/name=, "" around all attributes
XSL/XSLT
W3C XSL Standards
- doesn't interface directly with browsers
PHP
Webmonkey Tutorial
Perl/CGI
Webmonkey Tutorial
XSSI
Webmonkey
- what we use for some of the header magicks
- aja is fond of this, saves server load as functions happen when the page is called
- can be used places where CGI isn't allowed
Big General Resources Pile
A List Apart
Browser Watch
Search Engine Watch
W3C Tutorials
Some Code
Doctypes
HTML 4.01 Strict, Transitional, Frameset
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
XHTML 1.0 Strict, Transitional, Frameset
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
XHTML 1.1 DTD
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
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