Intro
Hi, and welcome! On your screen you’re reading the fourth edition of Upgrade Your HTML, a book series I started in 2019, to critique and then minimize and optimize HTML largely found in the wild, somewhere on the Web.
I like doing that, and people like you like reading that (I hope), because HTML looks so easy but really isn’t. HTML is a document language that comes with a syntax that is simple to learn, but rules and peculiarities that take a long time to master.
Like previous editions, this booklet won’t teach you all rules and peculiarities. It won’t even follow any strict didactic approach. But while it’s a loose and light collection of HTML case studies, I’ve been paying attention to giving it some structure and expanding on some details. This is to ensure you can take something away from it, even if you’ve read other books of the series.
Just as the book is short, this introduction is short, too. Please enjoy Upgrade Your HTML IV.
—Jens Oliver Meiert
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Who is this Jens person again? There’s a section at the end of this book for that (About the Author). Jens has spent much of his life working with HTML and CSS, including developing compact HTML/CSS frameworks, defining quality HTML and CSS coding guidelines, and maxing out HTML and CSS optimization options. He loves HTML, and knows a thing or two about the language. |