HTML Reference Library

Type of Program: HTML Reference
Supported Platforms: Winodws 95/NT
Author's Name: Steven Le Hunte
Version: 4.0 Build 175
Price: free
Installed size: 2.9M

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HTML Reference Library is the definitive, ultimate resource for your real-world HTML and web development questions. Don't waste your time reading hypothetical information about W3C (WWW Consortium) specs that might not actually be implemented! This is the Bible for everything HTML that actually lives and breathes -- including HTML 1, 2, 3, most proprietary browser tags, Dynamic HTML, and advanced information on HTML 4.0. HTMLib provides support for Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and NCSA Mosiac (Windows 95 versions 3.0, 4.01, and 4.04).

If your sanity and livelihood depend on knowing the latest HTML implentations, your need this app as surely as you need air. This NOT a replacement of W3C specs, merely a compendium of those specs that have been adopted into actual use. Big difference.

Added to version 4.0 of HTML Library are: the new HTML 4.0 elements now in use; details of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) properties and values, from CSS1 plus some later extensions introduced into CSS2; a new section on Dynamic HTML scripting object models, with properties, methods, and events, as supported by Netscape and Internet Explorer.

There are two prerequisities for installing this current version of HTML Reference Library: 1) you must have Internet Explorer 4, and 4.01 is preferred (specifically 4.72.2106.7 up, with shdocvw.dll); and 2) you need, already installed, Microsoft's HTML Help 1.1 (specifically, 4.72.7323 up, with hhctrl.ocx). IE4.01 can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40 Microsoft's HTML Help 1.1 can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/ (If you simply need to update to HTML Help version 1.1, the update file HHUPD.EXE, at 401K, can be downloaded from the HTML Reference Library download page.

Future releases of HTML Reference Library will not be IE4 dependent, but there's no set timetable for this update. The author encourages users to email him with any questions or comments (see email below), and users may also refer to the web-based HTML Reference Library discussion group at http://hjs.geol.uib.no/webstart.htm

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Support: (email author at htmlib@htmlib.demon.co.uk.)
Reviewed by Bobbie Crowell rjaye@mail.inforum.net
ICQ # 9407183

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