HTML Team Meeting Minutes

CALL TO ORDER: 7:00 pm

Attendees & Introductions

         Greg Luse        gregl@fortnet.org            OS/2 / Win 3.11
         Charles Clarke   clarke@fortnet.org           Unix / Mac
         Hans Amann       amann@fortnet.org            Win95 / Unix
         Michael Goshorn  goshorn@fortnet.org          Win95 / Unix
         Loyd Berry       ilgberry@fortnet.org         Win 3.11
         Joe Strecker     pbi@fortnet.org              Win 3.11 / Mac Sys 7
         Haresh Chalnani  haresh@fortnet.org           Win 3.11
         Darryl McBroom   darrylm@fortnet.org          Win 3.1
         Lannie Boyd      boydll@lamar.colostate.edu   Win95
         Brad Tidd        bhtidd@fortnet.org           Win 3.1
	

Old Business

1. Current Projects Status. Work in progress available online at http://www.fortnet.org/~goshorn/fortnet/

New Business

1. FortNet Re-design
   Approx 2.5 hours was spent exercising the support pages (Help, search, etc), folowing links, and making changes necessary to bring the system up this week.

2. Discussion of new software:
   • Apache update: Currently being done - see http://www.apache.org for details on the specific version.

   • HP-UX update: Under consideration to allow use of excite's search engine.

   • /cgi-bin/Count.cgi update to ver 2.3: Completed at the Meeting by Charles Clarke

3. HTML QA Standards Changes:
   • URL links specifying directories should end with a slash; some browsers will not mark the link as visited unless this is done. [Clarke]

   • The use of various WYSIWYG HTML editors by page authors is increasing. Many of these editors produce poor HTML code. We will compile a list of problems encountered with specific editors, which ones to avoid or ways to overcome their shortcomings.

   • Add recommendations to the QA std of lines < 80 characters

   • NCSA HTML 3.2 Specification replaces HTML 3.0 [Goshorn]

Meeting End: 9:30 pm

Next HTML Meeting Scheduled:

145 East Mountain Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Wed June 12, 1996 7 pm