Thanks; I always get screwed up putting the & lt; in for the <.
Also, I just C&P it from a Notepad off my desktop, somewhere buried under all the rest of the clutter! Enjoy.
I’m just enough of a bitHead that I actually USE the documentation from the guys at W3C. Discussion is now underway concerning HTML5.0, but the current “stable” implementation is 4.01 It’s interesting stuff.
Here’s a document that outlines the guiding principles philosophies that underlie the development of HTML 5.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/
The Site Index reads like a bibliography of web development:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/siteindex
All kinds of pertinent documents are referenced here, as well as hardcopy-published books on related topics. From this page, you can either navigate to an on-line document for further reading, or link to a page where you can buy a book; like this page, for instance:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/
(That one will simply CRUSH Algore, so don’t tell him it’s in print.)
To kick off with, though, if you’ve the interest, I’d recommend simply downloading the PDF version of the HTML 4.01 sepcification document, here (right-click, Save target As...):
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/html40.pdf.gz
[You’ll need WinZip or a similar GZip decompression tool]