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38 unusual facts about HTML


Alawar Entertainment

2) the host adds a JavaScript or PHP code to its site that accesses Alawar's server and displays the HTML content placed there.

Aptana

Based on Eclipse, it supports JavaScript, HTML, DOM and CSS with code-completion, outlining, JavaScript debugging, error and warning notifications and integrated documentation.

C-HTML

C-HTML adds several features not found in standard HTML, notably accesskeys, phone number shortcuts for links, and emoji pictorial characters as locally extended Shift JIS, all concepts borrowed from HDML and WML.

Canonical S-expressions

Thus, XML can be "configured" for particular kinds of data, which conform to some grammar (say, HTML, ATOM, SVG, MathML, or new ones as needed).

Deprecation

Early versions of the Web markup language HTML included a FONT element, to allow page designers to specify the font in which text should be displayed.

Ed Tittel

He is well known for his contributions to the best selling HTML for Dummies, HTML4 for Dummies, and has also authored For Dummies books on XHTML and XML.

Electoral-vote.com

All of the polling data were provided in multiple formats, including HTML, Excel, and .csv for downloading.

Forward compatibility

HTML is designed to ignore all unknown tags, which makes most new features degrade gracefully in older browsers.

Fsc2

fsc2 is well documented; the documentation with more than 350 pages in HTML, info, PostScript and PDF format is part of the package, covering all aspects of fsc2, i.e. the graphical interface, the EDL language, device functions and the writing of new device modules etc.

Gcov

It collects gcov data for multiple source files and creates HTML pages containing the source code annotated with coverage information.

Help authoring tool

The output from a HAT can be either a compiled Help file in a format such as WinHelp (*.HLP) or Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (*.CHM), or noncompiled file formats such as Adobe PDF, XML, HTML or JavaHelp.

File formats that can be imported vary from HAT to HAT, though they can include such formats as ASCII, HTML, OpenOffice Writer and Microsoft Word, and compiled Help formats such as Microsoft WinHelp and Microsoft Compressed HTML Help.

HelpNDoc

HelpNDoc allows the writer to create a single source text which it then converts to a number of target formats such as HTML Help, PDF, RTF, HTML documentations as well as EPUB and Amazon Kindle compatible E-books.

HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit enables running batch actions such as global search and replace in multiple files, Internet Explorer and Mozilla / Netscape side-by-side previewing, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checking through HTML Tidy, internal Command Prompt, TimeTracker, translations, Text to Speech Wizard and UnicodePad.

HTML+TIME

HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS.

HyTelnet

This is a simple reconstruction of the HyTelnet database, converted into flat HTML files suitable for any Web browser.

InCD

Systems which do not support UDF (such as Windows 98) will only present a HTML page (stored on the disk, outside the UDF part), explaining the problem and linking to a free UDF reader software.

International Chemical Safety Cards

To date approximately 1700 Cards are available in English in HTML and PDF format.

International Size Acceptance Association

Early on the publication was offered for download via PDF format, though since 2001 has been published actually online in HTML.

LabKey Server

It can be extended through the addition of Java-based modules or simple, file-based modules written in HTML, XML and JavaScript.

Liberty Accounts

It delivers HTML in a cross-platform web browser environment, hosted in the UK in a secure data centre.

Microsoft Help 2

HxS help file (help title) is compiled from a set of topic pages written in a subset of HTML, a .

Online casino

Some online casinos also allow gameplay through a HTML interface.

Online help

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which includes HTML Help, HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, and Oracle Help

Pagination

This usually involves a markup language (such as XML, HTML, or SGML) that tags the content semantically and machine-readably, which allows downstream technologies (such as XSLT, XSL, or CSS) to output them into whatever presentation is desired.

PCGen

The character sheets can also be exported in various kinds of XML, HTML, and PDF formats.

Planz

The document presented in a Planz window can be saved as an HTML file to be viewed in a web browser or edited in a word processor.

PreviewNetworks

For media owners, Preview Networks offers video content integrations available as an HTML embed or XML feed solution to increase audience loyalty and drive traffic.

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Reference card

With the advent of portable electronic devices that can display documents, digital reference cards stored in PDF or HTML formats have become more common.

Robert Temple Booksellers

At that point they did not have direct access to the web, and listings were made by sending floppy discs containing standard catalogue entries to ARCbooks, by post, which Gill herself converted into HTML format and displayed.

Software documentation

Often, tools such as Doxygen, NDoc, javadoc, EiffelStudio, Sandcastle, ROBODoc, POD, TwinText, or Universal Report can be used to auto-generate the code documents—that is, they extract the comments and software contracts, where available, from the source code and create reference manuals in such forms as text or HTML files.

Sony Ericsson K610i

It has a slightly bigger 1.9 inch, 262,000 colour, 176×220 pixel TFT LCD screen, built-in email client, WAP and HTML browser and a D-pad for navigation.

Stuart Harris

Therefore using character names such as “Ophelia” and “Hamlet”, as well as using HTML actions, gives the potential to introduce a very considerable alternative to traditional live performance platforms.

Technical writing

An HTML document, such as a web page, frequently has a different layout than a print document.

Testbed

Testbeds are also pages on the Internet where the public are given the opportunity to test CSS or HTML they have created and want to preview the results.

Tokelau

Free domains are pointed to Tokelau name servers, which redirects the domain via HTML frames to a specified address or to a specified A or NS record, and the redirection of up to 250 email addresses to an external address (not at a .tk domain).

Web for Schools

The project trained over 700 school teachers from 170 schools across Europe in basic HTML using a simple text editor, the only affordable web creation tool at that time.


ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Following the development of Microsoft Windows 95, standards adherents became annoyed that they were receiving email in HTML and non-human-readable formats.

BBEdit Lite

However, BBEdit Lite lacked programming and web-oriented tools such as syntax highlighting, a command line shell, HTML tools or FTP access.

Cabin Fever Media

Cabin Fever Media specializes in graphic design of album artwork, however, Cabin Fever Media also does various other commissioned work that involves illustration and design such as t-shirt design, logo creation, image editing and retouching, typesetting, photography, web design (HTML and DHTML, Flash), and multimedia presentations.

Caisis

It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is entirely web based; written mainly in C#, HTML, and JavaScript it runs on the .Net Framework.

CodeRush

It supports C# 4.0, VB10, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XAML and C++.

Content sniffing

For instance, Internet Explorer 7 may be tricked to run JScript in circumvention of its policy by allowing the browser to guess that an HTML-file was encoded in UTF-7.

CricketDraw

One notable feature of CricketDraw was its ability to display the raw PostScript code and the QuickDraw-interpreted elements simultaneously in two windows, the same way Adobe Systems's Dreamweaver does with HTML code now.

Designing with Web Standards

The book is credited with converting the industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility via correct use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

GMPG

GMPG was founded by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matthew Mullenweg who developed the initial principles for XFN, the XHTML Friends Network as an attempt for the creation of a simple way to express human relationships on the Web within HTML (machine-readable).

Heap spraying

Many web browser exploits that use heap spraying consist only of a heap spray that is copy-pasted from a previous exploit combined with a small piece of script or HTML that triggers the vulnerability.

HTTPhotos

The main focus is on producing HTML, JavaScript and Flash based photo galleries, for publishing online or distributing via other means.

Intelligent code completion

IntelliSense is now supported by the Visual Studio editors for C++, C#, J#, Visual Basic, XML, HTML and XSLT among others.

Internet Explorer 5

First released to developers at the 2000 Professional Developers Conference in Orlando, Florida, then made available for download, version 5.5 focused on improved print preview capabilities, CSS and HTML standards support, and developer APIs; this version was bundled with Windows Me.

Macomb Mathematics Science Technology Center

The day-to-day learning in IDS varies, including: QBasic programming Freshmen year, Statistics for half of Sophomore and Junior year, Java and SolidWorks Junior and Senior year, HTML and Flash at the end of senior year, as well as copious work time on the research project each student must complete and present with a partner each year.

Project MUSE

MUSE end-users have the capability to search the database and, if affiliated with a subscribing institution, immediately retrieve content in 100% full-text PDF or HTML formats.

Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus, originally called Quanta, is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages.

Rational Software

This effort combined the HTML-based process delivery mechanism employed by Objectory with Rational's 15-year experience base in working with customers developing significant software systems.

ScriptBasic

Slides in HTML format with English narration in RealAudio format are also available to get a jump start learning the architecture and module, preprocessor and embedding developments.

Standards-compliant

Current use of the term "standards-compliance" generally refers to the adherence to coding practices in relation to the use of HTML or XHTML, with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the layout, colors, and fonts of a web page.

Syntext Serna

Serna XML Editor offers multi-channel publishing, including out-of-the-box publishing to HTML and external publishing to PDF with FOP, XEP, or Antenna House XSL Formatter.

TransforMiiX

TransforMiiX is an XSLT processor used in Gecko browsers, such as Firefox, to transform XML into HTML.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.

Website wireframe

Some tools allow the incorporation of interactivity including Flash animation, and front-end web technologies such as, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Zettair

Zettair is a compact text search engine for indexing and search of HTML (or TREC) collections.