Hour 24. Beyond Traditional Web Sites

even as that standard evolves, tomorrow's web browsers and business software will retain the capability to view today's web pages. This book has focused on the most recent version of HTML, XHTML, which is well on its way to supplanting HTML as the language of choice for web page creation.

will enable you to do.

Try It Yourself

Web technology is constantly changing, which means that you shouldn't rely solely on the printed word to stay up-to-date with the latest goings-on in the HTML/XHTML world. For this reason, I encourage you to make an effort to keep tabs on the latest web technologies with the help of the following web sites:

• Your best two sources for the latest HTML standards (and proposed future standards) are the World Wide Web Consortium site (http://www.w3.org/) and the HTML Compendium (http://www.htmlcompendium.org/).
  
  
• To see how the standards are actually implemented in the latest web browsers, and to see what nonstandard HTML extensions might be available, visit the Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/), Mozilla Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com/), and Opera (http://www.opera.com/) web sites. Macintosh users may also want to visit the Apple web site (http://www.apple.com/) for the latest news on the Safari web browser.
  
  You can also get copies of the latest web browser updates from these web sites.