HTML - An Introduction

Specific Limitations of HTML

There are limits to the kinds of formatting and document structuring HTML can provide, and no current browser implements all of the ones the new HTML standard prescribes. Specifically, various browser manufacturers had implement several HTML features before the standard emerged in late 1997. These include:

• Framed document layout
• Scripted dynamic documents
• Moving and layered text
• Absolute text and image positioning
• hose niceties that just aren't available in any standard version of HTML are:
• Footnotes, endnotes, automatic tables of contents and indexes
• Headers and footers
• Tabs and other automatic character spacing
• Nested numbered lists
• Mathematical typesetting