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Best Practices for Authoring HTML Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document.

Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

2008-07-29

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

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Group Notes

2009-10-20

Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

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2009-09-08

Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts

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2007-04-12

Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content

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2000-11-06

HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

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1999-03-15

HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access

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Drafts

Below are draft documents: other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Other Working Drafts

2004-05-09

Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0

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Obsolete Specifications

These specifications have either been superseded by others, or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival purposes, but are not intended to be used.

Retired

1998-03-13

Primary Language in HTML

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