Web Standards Articles

The Web Standards Articles is a collection of articles on the concept of accessibility and structuring your webpages in standards HTML / XHTML and CSS with information about other web technologies and web browsers.

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The main articles are available to download in the following formats:

Web Standards Articles (All Main Articles in a ZIP File) (As of 2008-05-11)

ZIP File of OASIS (Organisation of the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) OpenDocument Text (716KB).

ZIP File of Adobe Portable Document Format (1.1MB).

ZIP File of Microsoft Office Word (468KB).

 

Introduction to Web Standards including Accessibility (2008-01-27)

Intro: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (56KB).

Intro: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (100KB).

Intro: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (136KB).

Web Accessibility (2008-01-27)

Accessibility: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (48KB).

Accessibility: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (60KB).

Accessibility: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (124KB).

Brief History of HTML, XML and XHTML (2008-01-27)

History: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (56KB).

History: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (100KB).

History: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (140KB).

A stndard flexible document exchange format, XML (2008-01-27)

XML: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (56KB).

XML: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (104KB).

XML: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (144KB).

Structure your webpages with HTML 5 (2008-05-06)

HTML 5: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (88KB).

HTML 5: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (380KB).

HTML 5: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (284KB).

Present and Layout with Cascade Stylesheets (CSS) (2008-03-13)

CSS: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (64KB).

CSS: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (152KB).

CSS: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (164KB).

Modelling the Document Objects (2008-01-27)

DOM: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (52KB).

DOM: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (92KB).

DOM: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (128KB).

Images used On the Web including PNG and JPEG (2008-01-27)

Images: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (56KB).

Images: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (120KB).

Images: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (144KB).

Resource Description Framework (2008-01-27)

RDF: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (52KB).

RDF: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (96KB).

RDF: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (132KB).

OASIS OpenDocument Format (2008-01-27)

OpenDocument: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (52KB).

OpenDocument: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (96KB).

OpenDocument: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (152KB).

Web Browsers and Packages (2008-05-11)

Browsers: OASIS OpenDocument Text (.odt) (140KB).

Browsers: Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) (392KB).

Browsers: Microsoft Office Word (.doc) (448KB).

 

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To extract the articles from the ZIP Files, if you are using:

• Apple Mac OS X.3 Panther or higher: Just double click the .zip file and OS X will extract all the articles into the current folder.
• Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus98 or Windows XP or higher: Double click or select and click the .zip file and click Extract and follow the Wizard's instructions.
• Linux or Unix: There are about five billion ways you can extract files from the .zip file, most notably using either KDE's Ark, Gnome's GCompress or the unzip command line utility.
• Otherwise you will need to download either an unzip program or a full zip/unzip program for your platform. Here is a starting point from Google

To open the OASIS OpenDocument Text format you will need an OpenDocument supported program such as OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 or 2.x and higher, The Sun ODF Plugin 1.2 for Microsoft Office 2000 and higher, Sun StarOffice/StarSuite 8 and higher, KOffice 1.4 and higher, IBM Workplace, NeoOffice 2.2.1 or higher (Mac OS X only), TextEdit in Mac OS X.5 Leopard (limited support) or Google Docs - many more have built-in or extension support for OpenDocument or are in the process of adding support.

To open the PDF Document you will need (version 5 or higher) or Preview in Mac OS X.

To open the Microsoft Office Word Document you will need Microsoft Office Word 97 or hgiher - most other Office Suites support the MS Office Word format too, such as OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice and StarOffice.

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