XHTML Resources

April 29, 2006

These are responses to some questions from an XHTML student:

There is an XHTML book by Elizabeth Castro that is one of the best.

Online, I still use http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/ quite a bit. The comparable XHTML references aren't as complete. Likewise, http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/#specs starting with Level 1.

For a good chart of special characters, see:
http://www.intuitive.com/coolweb/entities.html

There are good articles and "cheatsheets" at:
http://www.webreference.com/

Accessibility is tricky. There is lots of academic documentation around, but practical and proven techniques are harder to find. UNMCE offers a class a couple of times a year. Joe Clark is something of a guru: http://joeclark.org/

The little icon next to my web addresses is called "favicon.ico". It is a tiny 16x16 pixel graphic in a format known as ICO. See http://www.favicon.com/ for some good documentation and links. mjh

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