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Style Guide for online hypertext By Tim Berners-Lee. This document was written in the early days of the web ( 1992 ), defining such terms as "webmaster", the "www.xxx.com" convention, and a few basic points which are just as valid today. It has not been updated to discuss recent developments in HTML., and is out of date in many places, except for the addition of a few new pages, with given dates. This guide is designed to help you create a WWW hypertext database that effectively communicates your knowledge to the reader. Because hypertext is potentially unconstrained you are a little daunted. Do not be. You can write a document as simply as you like. In many ways, the simpler the better. You will be writing a number of separate files. These files will be linked to each other, and to external documents, to make your final work. You may think of your work as a "document", and if it were on paper, then you would call it that. In the online case though, we tend to refer to each individual file as a document. A document may correspond, in the book analogy, to a section or a subsection, or even a footnote. In this guide, we'll refer to the whole collection as a work. The title of a document is specified by the TITLE element. The TITLE element should occur in the HEAD of the document. The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in length. That is, many applications will display document titles in window titles, menus, etc where there is only limited room. Whilst there is no limit on the length of a title ( as it may be automatically generated from other data ), information providers are warned that it may be truncated if long. I can't give a complete summary of the do's and don't for making a web page "accessible". Following these guidelines you may find that the end result does not appear on your screen exactly as you would like, but your readers will probably be happier. A note about the author of this guide, Tim Berners-Lee: a graduate of Oxford University, he invented the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web client ( browser ) and server ( Httpd ) in 1990. He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group ( DIG ). He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK. He has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century.
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