Citation
Webb, K. (1999), "Raggett on HTML 4, second edition", Internet Research, Vol. 9 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/intr.1999.17209baf.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Raggett on HTML 4, second edition
Raggett on HTML 4, second edition
Raggett, D., Lam, J., Alexander, I. and Kmiec, M.Addison-Wesley LongmanHarlow, UK437 pp.1998ISBN 0-201-17805-2£29.95 pbkAvailable: Addison-Wesley Longman, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, UK. Tel: +44 1279 623623; Fax: +44 1279 431059; http://www.awl.co.uk
There are various ways to learn how to create Web pages. You might pay substantial fees for training courses on building Web pages, or you might read online HTML guides, copy source code from pages that you like and learn from experience. You may write your code by hand or use Web authoring tools to make the job easier. Whichever way you learn it and however you create your HTML, this book will help you do it better.
Dave Raggett works for the World Wide Web Consortium as the lead architect for HTML 4 (on assignment from Hewlett-Packard), while his co-authors are respectively a technical writer, a systems engineer and a programmer. Together the team has written an enjoyable book that is full of insights, examples and tips, as well as being a well set-out technical reference work.
The first two chapters introduce the Web and HTML (with particular attention to style sheets) and from then on it's HTML 4 all the way, with chapters covering paragraphs and headings, lists, links, graphics, scripting and so on.
A detailed table of contents makes it easy to find the part of a chapter that you are looking for, such as "Borders around images" or "Aligning text in individual table cells" and once you get to the text itself there are plenty of useful marginal notes on technical matters or quirks of history. The chapters all have extensive examples, including a colour section in the middle where the HTML code for various features is clearly explained.
Finally, there is a chapter on "Designing your Web project". This chapter presents a step-by-step approach to specification, design, structure, authoring tools, and testing and debugging. Anyone seriously writing Web pages should have this book.
Kerry WebbProject Coordinator, Distributed Media Information Systems, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences