Website Design &
Promotion SIG

Basic Exposure (Xposur?) to the XHTML Markup Language

SIG Presentation by: Lew Albery
June 2, 2001

presentation to:

The Chicago Computer Society

Region #

Chapter

for Saturday, June 2, 2001

Hosted by:

Coordinator, Chris Drew

umcac@art-teez.org

773 561-7676

at:

1630 West Wilson Ave.

2nd Floor Meeting Room

Chicago, Illinois 60640

Two MS-Word documents were presented and distributed to the attending meeting audience-at-large.

Basic Exposure.doc and Diff XHTML HTML 4.doc

Topics of discussion during the very boisterous and informative meeting:

http://www2.famvid.com/i101/

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

http://www.icann.org/

http://www.icann.org/tlds/

A Domain Name (www.att.com) is an alpha designation for a four (4) register digital address (120.010.001.932) system. Each of the four (4) discrete registers having three (3) numeric positions, representing one thousand (1,000 (000-999)) individual addresses each. Each of the four registers are reserved for very specific purposes, much like your name, city, state and zip code for your home address, and tells the Gateways and Routers on the Backbone Network Service where the request is being made from and to whom (what) the request is being made. Therefore, also where the reply must be sent in return. The current address system is the IP (Internet Protocol). It is already running out of addresses (4 billion). The new system is the IPv6. The new system will encompass six (6) discrete registers comprised of three (3) numeric positions representing one thousand (1000 (000-999)) individual addresses. The new register will support addresses in the trillions.

Your email address (lewalbery@ync.net) is an internet address. The Top Level Domain Name part of the Internet Protocol address is the ync.net portion. The lewalbery is the Internet Service Provider's internal addressing schema. The combination of the two, allows the World Wide Web participants to send e-mail to me with confidence that I will receive mine, and only my e-mail.

Internet Gateway Providers are as the name suggests, they are the gatekeepers for access to the Backbone Network Services (BNS Fiber optic Bundle). They have paid ICANN for and agree to maintain a gateway (door) to the BNS. These types of businesses usually sell access to the BNS to the really large companies that need very high speed broadband connections to the W3. This service is extremely expensive, both, to get into, and to maintain.

An Internet Router is like the smartest traffic cop in the world. The router literally reads the address that you are requesting and then routes your data (e-mail, requests and replies) over the BNS in the most expeditious (path of least resistance) manor. It actually can break up the data into multiple packets (portions) and send each packet of the data to the directed address on a different path (route). Since, when it does this, it assigns sequential numbers to the packets (portion, piece, envelope) the receiving machines protocol can reassemble the data in the proper order.

The ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the middle-sized company that can't afford a gateway of their own, so they buy access to the BNS gateway from the IGP. This is usually the organization that supplies you and me with the Internet Access that we need on an individual basis.

http://www.kaapeli.fi/nordkurs/SGML/sgml_doc.htm

To use SGML to design and build the average type of web site/pages that we see most generally today would, in opinion, be like trying to kill an ant using an atomic bomb.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

HTML has been so bastardized by so many people today that to enable you to produce a website and or web pages that could be read by all of the browsers that are on the web today, would require you to do triple and quadruple the work that it would require if there were a strict standard for the "language of the web."

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/

The XHTML language is a transitional language. It will give the different factions of the HTML era guidelines as to how and a timeline as when to comply with a world standard XML.

http://www.all-links.com/dynamic/whatisit.html

DHTML is the designation for Dynamic HyperText Markup Language. With Dynamic HTML, you can layer multiple images on top of one another, precisely control the layout of your page, add new interactivity and much more! Hierarchical Menus that appear only when your mouse pointer hovers over a menu item is a prime example of DHTML code.

http://www.w3.org/XML/

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