From the small business owner to the student creating a class project, or even casual individuals working on a blog or personal project online, HTML knowledge is incredibly useful. Although the prospect of having to learn a programming language certainly does seem daunting, the good news is that HTML uses common words so that it is fairly simple to pick up.
HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first "public" release was in 1991. It was based on an earlier markup language, SGML (Standardized General Markup Language).
The major innovation of HTML was its use of the hyperlink. We are so used to this now that it is hard to understand how revolutionary this idea was at the time.
The hyperlink allows any document to reference any other document, and provides immediate access to that other document. Hyperlinks are what make the World Wide Web a web, and not just a library or database.
The IETF took up HTML as a standard and published the first HTML proposal in 1993. HTML 2.0, the first full official specification was released in 1995. By 1997, the W3C had taken over stewardship of the standard, and HTML 3.2 was released.
HTML 4.0 was released towards the end of 1997, and again the following year with a few updates. This version of the standard, with its three variations (strict, transitional, and frameset) defined HTML most of the next decade.
It was the version in force during the rise of the web's most iconic properties: Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, WordPress, Myspace, AOL. If you learned how to build web pages before 2008, you almost certainly learned this version.
Alongside HTML 4.0 was a related project called XHTML. This was first released in 2000 and 2001, as an XML-based implementation of HTML 4.0. Since XML had a stricter syntax than HTML, and could be easily validated by an XML parser, it was thought that introducing XHTML would force web content authors to create more precise documents.
For the most part, this did not happen. In practice, XHTML — along with the three varieties of HTML4, and the wild variation in browser rendering — contributed to the general confusion concerning what was and wasn't "standard" HTML.
One notable effect of XHTML is the idea that you must "close" empty tags with a trailing slash. If you are in the habit of typing <br /> instead of just <br>, you can thank XHTML — it was an XML syntax requirement that all tags must be closed.
Meghna Thapar 4 years, 8 months ago
From the small business owner to the student creating a class project, or even casual individuals working on a blog or personal project online, HTML knowledge is incredibly useful. Although the prospect of having to learn a programming language certainly does seem daunting, the good news is that HTML uses common words so that it is fairly simple to pick up.
HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first "public" release was in 1991. It was based on an earlier markup language, SGML (Standardized General Markup Language).
The major innovation of HTML was its use of the hyperlink. We are so used to this now that it is hard to understand how revolutionary this idea was at the time.
The hyperlink allows any document to reference any other document, and provides immediate access to that other document. Hyperlinks are what make the World Wide Web a web, and not just a library or database.
The IETF took up HTML as a standard and published the first HTML proposal in 1993. HTML 2.0, the first full official specification was released in 1995. By 1997, the W3C had taken over stewardship of the standard, and HTML 3.2 was released.
HTML 4.0 was released towards the end of 1997, and again the following year with a few updates. This version of the standard, with its three variations (strict, transitional, and frameset) defined HTML most of the next decade.
It was the version in force during the rise of the web's most iconic properties: Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, WordPress, Myspace, AOL. If you learned how to build web pages before 2008, you almost certainly learned this version.
Alongside HTML 4.0 was a related project called XHTML. This was first released in 2000 and 2001, as an XML-based implementation of HTML 4.0. Since XML had a stricter syntax than HTML, and could be easily validated by an XML parser, it was thought that introducing XHTML would force web content authors to create more precise documents.
For the most part, this did not happen. In practice, XHTML — along with the three varieties of HTML4, and the wild variation in browser rendering — contributed to the general confusion concerning what was and wasn't "standard" HTML.
One notable effect of XHTML is the idea that you must "close" empty tags with a trailing slash. If you are in the habit of typing <br /> instead of just <br>, you can thank XHTML — it was an XML syntax requirement that all tags must be closed.
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