Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, fonts, Web browsers and other applications Here is help with creating multilingual Web pages and non-Latin alphabets. There is a section especially devoted to Unicode Support in HTML, HTML editors and Web browsers.
Category: HTML
Quirks mode and Standards mode explained
Doctype switching and standards compliance in Internet Explorer and Netscape. With an explanation of what both modes are, links to DOCTYPE switching resources and a table of DOCTYPES with respective modes, this is a very helpful page for those trying to figure out what DOCTYPE to use, if any.
Remove Microsoft Office markup tags from HTML
Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 Microsoft has a tool called Office HTML Filter that lets you remove Office-specific markup tags from Office documents saved as HTML. Windows only. Cleans up the HTML even better than Dreamweaver’s Clean Up Word HTML tool.
264 Screen Shots of font sizing options
text sizing – up the garden path Owen Briggs lays out all the font sizing options in all the browsers in search of a workable standard. Ems, px, %, oh, my!
Tip: Workaround for poor longdesc support
W3C standards call for the use of a ‘longdesc’ attribute for images or other possibly inaccessible page elements. The longdesc attribute in a tag links to an HTML file that gives a long description of the inaccessible element. But browser support for longdesc is still somewhat problematic. So many people are now using a workaround that involves putting a ‘d’ after the element. The ‘d’ is made into a link to the long description. This practice is understood by people who need the long description information.
DOCTYPE Resources
First Bite of the Apple courses in XHTML
Beginner’s Course in XHTML is from New Zealand’s wonderful trainer Miraz Jordan. The Level Two Course in XHTML is also available.