W3CWD-HTML40

HTML 4.0 Specification

W3C Working Draft Epilogue
$Date: 1998/06/05 15:52:09 $

Latest Version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40
About:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970917/
Editors
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>

Status of the document

The 17-Sep-1997 Working Draft, HTML 4.0 Specification, obsoleted a number of older working drafts by incorporating them into a single draft.

The 7-Nov-1997 revision was a Proposed Recommendation, which was endorsed as a W3C Recommendation 18-Dec-1997.

This work is part of the W3C HTML Activity.

Abstract

This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), version 4.0, the publishing language of the World Wide Web. In addition to the text, multimedia, and hyperlink features of the previous versions of HTML, HTML 4.0 supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities, and documents that are more accessible to users with disabilities. HTML 4.0 also takes great strides towards the internationalization of documents, with the goal of making the Web truly World Wide.

HTML 4.0 is an SGML application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language [ISO8879]). As an SGML application, the syntax of conforming HTML 4.0 documents is defined by the combination of the SGML declaration and the document type definition (DTD). This specification defines the intended interpretation of HTML 4.0 elements and adds syntax constraints that may not be expressed by the DTD alone.

References

Hypertext Links in HTML
28th March 1997, Dave Raggett, Dan Connolly, Tim Berners-Lee, Murray Maloney, Liam Quin
HTML and Style Sheets
24 March 1997, Dave Raggett, Bert Bos, Håkon Lie
Client-side Scripting and HTML
14 March 1997, Dave Raggett
Implementing HTML Frames
31 March 1997, Arnaud Le Hors, Murray Maloney
Enhancing Interactive HTML documents
02 April 1997, Dave Raggett, Arnaud Le Hors, Scott Isaacs
Inserting objects into HTML
18 February 1997, Dave Raggett, Charlie Kindel, Lou Montulli, Eric Sink, Wayne Gramlich, Jonathan Hirschman, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, Bruce Kahn, Steve Byrne
Additional named entities for HTML
25 November 1996, Chris Lilley, Bob Stayton
The HTML3 Table Model
23 January 1996, Dave Raggett