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--- eg-259:lecture2 [2012/01/18 17:58] – eechris
+++ eg-259:lecture2 [2012/01/20 17:12] – [Contents of this Lecture] eechris
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 ====== The Structural and Presentation Layers ======
-**Lecture 2**: To be discussed on Thursday 2nd February, 2012.
+**Contact Hour 3**: To be discussed on Thursday 2nd February, 2012.
 **Lecturer**: [[C.P.Jobling@Swansea.ac.uk|Dr Chris P. Jobling]].
-Revision of the most commonly used subsets of the eXtensible Markup Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
+Revision of the most commonly used subsets of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
 Material covered here is expanded in Chapters 3 and 4 of the module textbook: Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman, //Web Design: A complete introduction//, Wiley, 2006.
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 ===== The Structural and Presentation Layers =====
-  * This lecture revises the most commonly used subsets of the eXtensible Markup Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets.
+  * These notes revise the most commonly used subsets of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
-  * Because it //is// revision, we will move quickly in the presentation.
+  * Because it //is// revision, you are expected to read these notes and if necessary work through the exercises in your own time.
   * More detailed notes and examples are to be found on-line.
-The slides and notes in this lecture are based on Chapters 2 and 3 of Robert W. Sebasta, //Programming the World-Wide Web//, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2006.
+These slides and notes are based on Chapters 2 and 3 of Robert W. Sebasta, //Programming the World-Wide Web//, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2006. The examples presented there use XHTML markup. I have updated these to HTML5.
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 A different treatment of XHTML given in Part I (Chapters 2-3) of the textbook Chris Bates, //Web Programming: Building Internet Applications//, 3rd Edition,
-John Wiley, 2006.. However, you should note that book tends to use a simpler, non-validated form of XHTML. You will find additional information about cascading style sheets and further examples in Chapters 4 and 5 of Bates and in Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman, //Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML//, O'Reilly Media,Inc., 2006.
+John Wiley, 2006.. However, you should note that though that book tends to use a simpler, non-validated form of XHTML, the examples are actually valid HTML5 which has a simpler more forgiving syntax. You will find additional information about cascading style sheets and further examples in Chapters 4 and 5 of Bates and in Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman, //Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML//, O'Reilly Media,Inc., 2006.
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 **Revision: To Be Read Offline**
-  * [[eg-259:xhtml|The Structural Layer: XHTML]]
+  * [[eg-259:xhtml|The Structural Layer: HTML]]
   * [[eg-259:css|The Presentation Layer: CSS]]
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   * [[eg-259:html5#browser_support|HTML 5 Browser Support]]
   * [[eg-259:html5#video|HTML 5 Video]]
-  * [[eg-259:html5|XHTML 2 and HTML 5]]
+  * [[eg-259:html5|XHTML 2 and HTML5]]
   * [[eg-259:css3|CSS 3]]