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Evolution of HTML

HTML - HYPERTEXT Markup Language


* they use tags to annotate documents
* tags indicate where headings, images, lists, links, line breaks, and other
components should go
* when your computer opens a .html file, it knows to open it in an Internet Browser
* Semantics or the meaning behind them
* early Years:
HTML was required to be a common language between all platforms.
* Mosaic emerged as the first graphical browser
* Web Standards:
Internet Enginerring Task Force(IETF)
WorldWideWeb Consortium (W3C)
The Web Accessiblity Initiative (WAI)

* HTML 1.0 - Link Document


HTML 2.0 - To include stylized text and tablets
HTML 3.0 - to include browser specific features
HTML 4.0 - Normalizing the pages across the platforms
HTML 5.0 - HTML + Multimedia + Semantic Tags
* HTML5 is a cooperation between W3C and the Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group (WHATWG)
* Guidelines establised for HTML5
New Features should be based on HTMl, CSS, the DOM, and
JavaScript
Reduce the need for external plugins
more markup to replace scripting

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