HTML and the Art of Authoring For the World Wide Web is devoted to
teaching the Web user how to generate good hypertext.
`As a result of (this) rapid uncontrolled growth, the Web community
may be facing a `hypertext crisis'. Thousands of hastily written or ill
conceived documents may soon be presented to readers poorly formatted or
unusable... .' (From the Preface.)
`The clear and practical ways in which HTML and the Art of
Authoring For the World Wide Web sets forth the principles of the
Web, the operation of its servers and browsers, and its publishing
concept is commendable. It will be an indispensable guide to the Web
author as well as the sophisticated user.' (From the Foreword by
Robert Cailliau.)
`Despite its user friendliness, the Web has, by its own virtue, a
default that makes it difficult for people to know where to begin: there
is no starting point to the Web. Bebo White's HTML and the Art of
Authoring For the World Wide Web will fill this gap immediately, as it
provides a clear, introductory and sequential description of the
fundamental concepts that lie underneath the Web. It describes HTML as
an SGML application, explains the relationship between HTML and SGML,
and gives a complete description of all the structure that HTML
provides.' (From the Foreword by Eric van Herwijnen.)