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               <h1 class="title">Best Practices for Authoring HTML Current Status</h1>
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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss">HTML &amp; CSS</a>.</p>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
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                     <a href="../history/mobile-bp" title="Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 publication history">2008-07-29</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729/">Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a>
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                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=mobile-bp">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/07/mwbp-errata.html">errata</a>
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                        <p>The Mobile Web Best Practices specificies best practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices, with a principal objective to improve the user experience.</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/mwbp-guidelines" title="Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 publication history">2009-10-20</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mwbp-guidelines-20091020/">Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a>
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                        <p>This document supplements the <a href="http://www.w3.org /TR/mobile-bp/" shape="rect">Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a> by providing additional evaluatio ns of conformance to Best Practice statements and by providing additional interpret ations of these statements. </p>
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                     <a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-bidi" title="Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts publication history">2009-09-08</a>
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                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-bidi-20090908/">Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts</a>
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                        <p>
Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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                     <a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-lang" title="Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML &amp; HTML Content publication history">2007-04-12</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/">Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML &amp; HTML Content</a>
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                        <p>
Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.			 
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                     <a href="../history/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS" title="HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 publication history">2000-11-06</a>
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                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-WCAG10-HTML-TECHS-20001106">HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>
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                        <p>This document describes techniques for authoring accessible Hypertext Markup
Language (<acronym>HTML</acronym>) content
(refer to HTML 4.01 <cite>
[HTML4]</cite>). This document is intended to help authors of Web content
who wish to claim conformance to "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"
(<cite>[WCAG10]</cite>). While the techniques in
this document should help people author HTML that conforms to "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", these techniques are neither guarantees of
conformance nor the only way an author might produce conforming content.</p>
                        <p>This document is part of a series of documents about techniques for
authoring accessible Web content. For information about the other documents in
the series, please refer to "Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0" <cite>[WCAG10-TECHS]</cite>.</p>
                        <p>
                           <strong>Note:</strong> This document contains a number of examples that
illustrate accessible solutions in CSS but also deprecated examples that
illustrate what content developers should not do. The deprecated examples are
highlighted and readers should approach them with caution -- they are meant for
illustrative purposes only.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/NOTE-html40-mobile" title="HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access publication history">1999-03-15</a>
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                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/NOTE-html40-mobile-19990315">HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access</a>
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                        <p>HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access represents one of the early attempt at developing guidelines to make Web content useful on mobile devices.</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/media-accessibility-reqs" title="Media Accessibility User Requirements publication history">2012-01-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-media-accessibility-reqs-20120103/">Media Accessibility User Requirements</a>
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                        <p>Aggregates requirements of a user with disabilities with respect to audio and video on the Web, providing background on user needs, alternative content technologies, and their application on the Web.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-char" title="Authoring Techniques for XHTML &amp; HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0 publication history">2004-05-09</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-char-20040509/">Authoring Techniques for XHTML &amp; HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0</a>
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                        <p>Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS, focusing specifically on advice about character sets, encodings, and other character-specific matters.</p>
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      <h2 id="obsolete">Obsolete Specifications</h2>
      <p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
      or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
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                     <a href="../history/NOTE-html-lan" title="Primary Language in HTML publication history">1998-03-13</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-html-lan-19980313">Primary Language in HTML</a>
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                        <p>Thoughts on how to mark the primary
                        language(s) in a HTML document.</p>
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