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Chapter 1: The Least You Need to Know about HTML, CSS, and the Web
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Ed auf Deutsch
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Ed Tittel hat seinen technischen Schriften im Jahre 1986 angefangen, als er
f
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r einen Macintosh monatlichen Zeitschrift Artikeln schrieb. In drei mehr
Jahren, hat er auch f
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r anderen Journalen wie
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LAN Times
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,
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Network World
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, und
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LAN Magazine
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merhrere Artikeln
beigetragen. Er fertigte seinen ersten Buch im Jarhe 1991, und beim Ende des
Jahres 1994 hat er auf ein Dutzend B
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cher gearbeitet.
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The entity that represents the umlauted u is ü.
(X)HTML character codes
The encodings for the ISO-Latin-1 character set are supplied by default, and
related entities (a pointer to a complete table appears in Chapter 24) can be
invoked and used without special contortions. But using other encodings
mentioned earlier requires inclusion of special markup to tell the browser
it must interpret Unicode character codes. (Unicode is an international
standard — ISO standard 10646, in fact — that embraces enough charac-
ter codes to handle most unique alphabets, plus plenty of other symbols
and nonalphabetic characters as well.) This special markup takes the
form <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html;
charset=UTF 8”>; because the value for charset reads UTF-8, you can
reference common Unicode values that appear in Chapter 24.
Although today’s browsers support UTF-8 across the board, you can expect
to see support for UTF-16 character codes showing up in the next year or
two. This will let browsers deal more effectively with non-Roman alphabets
like Arabic, kata kana (Japanese), or Hangul (Korean), which some browsers
struggle to render correctly today.
Tag characters
HTML-savvy software assumes that some HTML characters, such as the
greater-than and less-than signs, are meant to be hidden and not displayed
on your finished Web page. If you actually want to show a greater-than or
less-than sign on your page, you’re going to have to make your wishes clear
to the browser. The following entities let you display characters that nor-
mally are part of the hidden HTML markup:
✓ less-than sign (<): <
✓ greater-than sign (>): >
✓ ampersand (&): &
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