The DOCTYPE
When I first started researching HTML5 a few months ago, one of the main things I struggled to find was the doctype. A simple thing, you’d think it would be everywhere, but after much frustration, I finally found it buried within w3.org and here it is:
<!DOCTYPE html>
I was also curious why ... Read More
ISO Character Sets
It is the International Standards Organization (ISO) that defines the standard character-sets for different alphabets/languages.
The different character-sets being used around the world are listed below:
Character set
Description
Covers
ISO-8859-1
Latin alphabet part 1
North America, Western Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa
ISO-8859-2
Latin alphabet part 2
Eastern Europe
ISO-8859-3
Latin alphabet part 3
SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous ... Read More
We have all heard of HTML. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. What is a hypertext markup language, you ask? It is a language for specifying how certain text should appear. When you design a web page, you want certain content or text to be displayed in a specific way. ... Read More
I know that many people still use HTML 4.01, but with the introduction of XHTML and unending browser updates, it is becoming less popular in favour of this new web standard. This tutorial is just an introduction to XHTML.
Firstly though, what is XHTML?
XHTML is pretty much the same as HTML ... Read More
