DigRepStandards-Standard-HTML

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HTML / XHTML

Standard: HTML

About the Standards: HTML is the native Web format for the Web. HTML describes the structure of native Web documents.

Version: At the time of writing (27 July 2005) the recommended versions of HTML are HTML 4 and XHTML 1.

Maturity: HTML is a mature format, with many authoring tools available and a wide understanding of the technologies. (XHTML 1.1 is the latest version and is widely supported.)

Risk Assessment: Historically HTML provided both structural and formatting elements and many tools still support this approach. Use of CSS has, in the past, been hindered by poor support in browsers, although simple techniques are now available for overcoming such barriers. However inertia, investment in legacy authoring tools or a lack of awareness of current best practices may hinder deployment of HTML and CSS with corresponding difficulties in maximising accessibility and interoperability.

In addition there is a need to ensure documents using HTML comply with appropriate standards. There will be a need to deploy appropriate QA techniques to ensure that this is the case.

Also note that there are some minor issues concerning the MIME type to be used with XHTML 1 resources. In practice, however, there is a widespread, but not universal, view that the same MIME type can be used for both HTML and XHTML 1 resources.

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