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Web Developer Resource Index: Markup Languages

Markup Languages are used to combine both the content, and the structure and formatting of a document. The most common example of this is HTML, used to publish hypertext documents on the WWW.

The term “markup” comes from the printing and publishing industry, in which editors made special notes on manuscripts. These instructions were applied during the typesetting process before a book was printed.

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• 1.The Secret Life of Markup

  An article describing the the concepts of document semantics, structure, markup, content, style, transformation, and presentation. [270]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://hesketh.com/publications/the_secret_life_of_markup.html
  Author:
  Steve Champeon
  [2]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 17th, 2005 @ 3:32 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The Secret Life of Markup markup
   

• 2.X-Ray

  A Firefox extension that allows you to view the markup of a Web page without having to switch between it and Page Source. In other words, the markup is displayed in the context of the rendered page. Each element is wrapped by the markup that defines it. [1682]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://designmeme.com/xray/
  Author:
  Stuart Robertson
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 @ 1:22 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  X-Ray codeextensionfirefoxmarkup
   

• 3.Semantics in the Wild

  Using a simple Web spider, John has done a study not so much on how developers use semantics provided by markup elements as much as the as those created through the use of class and id values. In other words a statistical frequency study of these values. [1612]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/real_world_sema.html
  Author:
  John Allsopp
  [2]
  Reviewed:Thursday, January 26th, 2006 @ 3:26 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Semantics in the Wild csshtmlmarkupsemanticsxhtml
   

• 4.Validome

  As an alternative to the W3C Validation Services, Validome offers some features worth taking a look at, including the ability to select from a large list of User-Agent request strings, Accept-Languages, gzip Accept-Encoding, character sets and doctypes. [1558]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.validome.org/
  Author:
  Validome Team
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 @ 9:46 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Validome charsetdoctypegziphtmluser agentvalidatorxhtmlxml
   

• 5.The Meaning of Semantics

  Nearly every Web designer is guilty of forcing line breaks, using tables for layout, and a host of other egregious HTML sins. Now that CSS is here, Molly slaps our hands and explains why we should pay attention to an element's content, not just its looks. [1515]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=369225
  Author:
  Molly Holzschlag
  [2]
  Reviewed:Saturday, August 27th, 2005 @ 12:41 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The Meaning of Semantics cssdesignhtmlmarkupsemanticsxhtml
   

• 6.Web SGML and HTML 4.0 Explained

  The online version of Bryan's book on HTML and its relationship to SGML. Chapters 1, on the history of electronic markup, and 2, on the HTML DTD are particularly informative, even if they are from a slightly historical perspective. [1229]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/home.htm
  Author:
  Martin Bryan
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, May 23rd, 2005 @ 4:34 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Web SGML and HTML 4.0 Explained doctypehtmlmarkupsgml
   

• 7.Mozilla Web Author FAQ

  If you're interested in different aspects of how Mozilla and other Gecko-based browsers such as Firefox treat markup, this is a good place to start. Of note are rendering modes ("quirks" vs. standards), and incremental rendering of XHTML documents. [1222]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html
  Author:
  Henri Sivonen
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 @ 7:08 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Mozilla Web Author FAQ faqgeckomarkupmozillaxhtml
   

• 8.SimpleBits: SimpleQuiz

  I certainly wouldn't call it simple, nor would I call it quick, but if you're interested in an in-depth discussion of markup and semantics (with lots of feedback from designers and developers) then put aside a few hours and work through this series. [1130]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://simplebits.com/bits/simplequiz/
  Author:
  Dan Cederholm
  [2]
  Reviewed:Thursday, May 12th, 2005 @ 5:33 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  SimpleBits: SimpleQuiz designdevelopermarkupsemantics
   

• 9.Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure

  Good HTML structure is based on logic, order, and using semantically correct markup. If you have a heading use the heading element, beginning with the H1 element. If you have a paragraph, use a paragraph element.. [1110]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://brainstormsandraves.com/articles/semantics/structure/
  Author:
  Shirley Kaiser
  [2]
  Reviewed:Saturday, May 7th, 2005 @ 9:20 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure htmlmarkupsemanticsxhtml
   

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