HTML specifications | |
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| name/link | comments |
| W3C | WWW Consortium standardisation body. Includes index of W3C Technical reports, HTML 4.0 Specification, HTML 3.2 spec, HyperText Markup Language (HTML: Working and Background Materials), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML 2.0 - HTML Public Text), URI spec and HTML 2.0 (Proposed Standard Materials). Also ISO 639-2 codes for natural languages. |
| CSS | 2004-6-19: Cascading Style Sheets, level 1. W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996, revised 11 Jan 1999.See also CSS2. |
| CSS resources | 2005-8-15: The 10 Best Resources for CSS, by Mark Daoust. |
| HTML guide | 2005-3-22: NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML. |
| Windex | Build HTML Index for Bitmap Images. |
| ISO639a | Code for the representation of the names of languages. from ISO 639, revised 1989. |
| XML article | An article on XML by Steve Litt. |
| prefetch FAQ | 2005-4-5: Mozilla Link Prefetching FAQ. This is yet more greedy behaviour by selfish users who don't mind inconveniencing other users and servers with limited bandwidth. A lot of servers have to pay by volume. And all users and servers are harmed by this naked greed. Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future.Now it seems that Google is helping Firefox users to be greedy and selfish by using prefetching. |
| validator.w3.org | A web site for validating HTML web pages. Topology.org fails! You can download the HTML validator source. You have to download both the code tarball and the DTDs. See also installation instructions. |
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) | |
| name/link | comments |
| CGI Spec | When I finally found out what CGI was, I was surprised to discover that there really isn't one. CGI is just the idea of creating a web page of any sort on the fly - on demand. Any program that produces a web page as output (after optionally parsing the argument text after a "?" character) is a CGI `script'. |
| CGI env variables | 2005-4-4. |
| CGI Security FAQ | |
| Beginners CGI | A free e-book on Perl/CGI by William Teunis. |
| CGI FAQ | |
web server software | |
| name/link | comments |
| Apache | They have an Apache module register which you can search. (E.g. see my bwshare module.) Here is the AARNet mirror for Apache httpd in Australia. Here are the Apache PGP keys and the Apache software verification instructions. Includes Apache 1.3 documentation and Apache 2.0 documentation. See also Apache API. |
| modssl.org | 2004-6-26: Apparently this Apache module is used only in Apache 1.3.x. Includes documentation and a useful example trivial installation. There is also mod_ssl for Apache 2 at httpd.apache.org. |
| GD | Graphics software used in conjunction with the Apache server. See also FreeType, which is needed for GD. See also Zlib. (See also my notes on Zlib installation on linux.) See also fly, which reads a script file to generate graphics files using the GD API. |
| Apache authentication | Howto on setting up authentication for Apache. |
| Threebit Tutorials | 2005-4-11: Includes building Apache modules with autoconf and automake and the portions of the Apache API that are used by modules to control their configuration. |
| Apache API | 2005-4-11: Getting started using the Apache C API (For versions 1.3.x)by Thomas Eibner. |
| apache modules | 2005-4-11: Writing Apache Modules with Perl and Cby Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern. |
| squid | Web cache software. |
| webmasterworld.com | We are here as a forum for the members to share and gain knowledge in operating and promoting a website. |
| Jigsaw | Standard web server put out by W3C. |
| NPS4 | German server software, I think. |
| CERN HTTP Daemon | W3C documentation. |
| httpd documentation | |
| Apache Services | A site with news and other resources for the Apache server. |
| Sangoma Technologies WWW Server | |
| fantomaster.com | A web site offering web server management software. |
| secure server info | Information from SuSE on how to configure a secure web server. |
web browser software | |
| name/link | comments |
| mozilla.org | The mozilla browser, related to netscape. See also mozilla documentation and mozillafoundation.org. See also mozillaZine. See also Mozilla in France. |
| Firefox browser | 2005-3-22: See also Portable Firefox
(optimized for use on a USB key drive). 2005-5-13: It's important to download Firefox every Wednesday because Monday is Firefox vulnerability announcement day. They usually take 2 days to fix it. Now what I really want is a way to save all of my tabs in my 8 open Firefox windows so that I don't have to set them all up again every Wednesday. 2005-9-22: See also Fonts for MathML-enabled Mozilla and mozilla fonts. |
| K-Meleon browser | 2005-1-25: Apparently a light-weight Mozilla derivative like firefox. |
| Minimo | 2004-5-22: The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, and porting to small consumer devices. We hope to make Minimo the browser of choice on small devices.See also this linux devices article. |
| lynx | The most popular open source text-screen browser. This is actually a very good browser, especially if you were brought up on VT-100 terminals. |
| konqueror.org | A web browser for KDE2. |
| Opera | A purportedly very good browser, especially for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Available for download. |
| Amaya | Standard editor/browser put out by W3C. |
| Galeon | A mozilla-based browser for gnome on linux. Reportedly very good. |
| Links | A text-based browser with colour. |
| browsehappy.com | 2004-8-24: Explains how and why to change from IE to safer browsers. |
| 3d web browsers | A short Scientific American article on 3d browsers. |
| Welcome to Netscape | See bug fix for SuSE 6.4 netscape. |
| ViewML | Viewable Markup Language. ViewML (Viewable Markup Language) is the first freely available, open source web browser targeted specifically at the embedded Linux platform. |
| Any-browser campaign | Campaign for a non-browser specific WWW. Has graphics for advertising the campaign and accessible site design hints. |
| speedbit.com | 2005-9-2: An Israeli company whose product Download Acceleratorslows down the Internet for everyone by opening up multiple connections to download big files multiple times. This gives a tiny speed improvement for some clients for big servers which are temporarily congested, but for most conditions, especially for small servers on dial-up and ADSL lines, this DAclient software is a horrible disaster. |
| FDA | 2005-9-4: Free Download Manager. Free software which slows down the Internet for everybody. More selfish software. |
| HTTP agents | 2005-9-2: A very useful list of HTTP agents, which helps you to interpret all that rubbish you find in your web server logs. Provided by psychedelix.com. |
linux web `authoring' software | |
| name/link | comments |
| Nvu | A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. |
HTML-based FAQ management software | |
| name/link | comments |
| FAQ-o-matic | |
Useful FAQs and related documents recommended in Perl FAQ 9 on networking | |
| name/link | comments |
| Web FAQ | |
| WWW Security FAQ | |
| HTTP Spec | The HTTP/1.1 protocol is defined in RFC 2616. Also available in HTML format at w3.org. Includes HTTP status codes. |
| HTML spec | |
| HTML Spec | |
sites demonstrating browser colours, tiles and images | |
| name/link | comments |
| psychedelix.com | 2005-9-2: You can get nearly 1000 psychedelic background - tiles & wallpapers in 34 different collections. The most collections contains about 40 images and will be changed from time to time. There are also dozens of trippy & retro full screen sized wallpaper images. |
| 216 `websafe' colours | Supposedly web-safe colours, as described in this article. |
| thecorporation.com | The Corporation's icon gallery.A big bunch of useful icons. But they make threats against you if you don't link copies of their icons to their web-site. So they're pretty useless really. |
| visibone colour chart | |
| 5k website contest | A site which runs contests for best website under 5k bytes. Here's a list of entries. |
| Interface Hall of Shame | |
| CAST - Bobby | Guidelines and tests for making web pages better for disabled people. |
| http://www.superbad.com/ | Very bad web site design. |
| blackdot2a.jpg | A totally horrible JPEG file. Only look at this if your health insurance covers eye damage. Alternatively look at this black-dot wallpaper. |
| webpagesthatsuck.com | Bad web page design. Includes suckframe.htm. |
| John Durham | Educational material on web site design. His own site isn't a really good example of expert design. |
notable web servers | |
| name/link | comments |
| XPort | A Lantronics web server inside an RJ45 connector. Costs US$33 for quanitites of 10,000. |
| server in matchbox | At Standford. See also the TIQIT PC in matchbox. |
| totl.net/Spud | Potato-powered web server on the net. (Fake.) |
| ~fwhite/Spud | Potato-powered web server on the net. (Allegedly real.) |
related links | |
| name/link | comments |
| searchfreefonts.com | 2005-9-22: A really big clump of downloadable fonts. |
| Cache docs | 2004-4-14: Caching tutorial for web authors and webmasters. Includes how to use the cache-control headers in HTTP 1.1. |
| ImageMagick | With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, or from the C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, or Ruby programming languages.Here is the AARNet ImageMagick mirror for Australia. Here's the sourceforge imagemagick page. Here is the C language API documentation. |
| album | An HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes a directory of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need. |
| Gopher manifesto | |
| reallybig.com | A very commercial-looking web site with web-design resources. We offer more than 5000 resources for web builders including free scripts, CGI, counters, fonts, html, java, clipart, animation, backgrounds, icons, HTML editors, buttons, photographs, site promotion, easy-to-follow Tips and Tricks, and much more. |
| Macromedia | These are the creators of the annoying Flash plug-in software. |
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