HTML Authoring Tips

HTML Authoring Tips

The W3(." HTML 4.01 specification makes these general recommendations to Web page authors:

1. Separate structure and presentation

As the Internet develops, a wider range of devices are expected to access HTML documents on a variety of platforms (cellphones, PDAs, etc.).

It is therefore recommended that the Web page author should now use style sheets for all presentational aspects of"a 11TML document.

This enables one document to be more easily readable across a wide range of devices and platforms. The process of making revisions to a HTML document is simplified and the cost of serving a wide range of platforms is reduced.

2. Universal accessibility

The Web page author is recommended to consider that their HTML documents may be accessed from a variety of special platforms by those users with physical limitations.

Man\ r HTML 4 tags have attributes, such as "label", that can be set to provide extra information for these users.

Also, with increasing globalization, a HTML document may reach an audience from other countries that has a computer which is configured diffrentely from the originating computer.

Consequently, for pages to be interpreted and displayed correctly, the Web page author should include in the document information about language used, direction the text goes in and how the page is encoded.

3. Speed-up table rendering

The table layout model in previous versions of HTML often had to download the complete table data before the browser was able to render the table in the display.

Web page authors are recommended to make use of the new table model in HTML 4 which has added features to help browsers render tables more quickly.

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