Standards In A Digital World: Z39.50, HTML, Java: Do They Really Work?

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Table of Contents

Standards In A Digital World: Z39.50, HTML, Java: Do They Really Work?

Contents

UK Web Focus

The Question

HTML Roadmap

HTML History

HTML Wars

HTML Wars - The Problems

End of the Wars?

Microsoft Pledge (Cont.)

HTML 4.0 and CSS

W3C Process

W3C Process

HTML - The Competition

PDF

Use of Native File Format

XML

XML Support

Metadata

Metadata Requirements

Metadata Standards

Other XML Developments

Scripting

Scripting

Java

Java Applications

Java Standardisation

Distributed Searching - The Problem

Possible Solutions

An Applications Solution

Z39.50 - What Is It?

Z39.50 History

Related Protocols

What The Software Companies Say

Caveat Emptor!

Conclusions

Further Information

On Julius Caesar, Queen Eanfleda, and the lessons from time past

 Author: Brian Kelly

Email: B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/