Mazrim
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Jul 29, 2005, 6:02 AM
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Well, I wrote this on another forum (it was also the history of other langauges), so I just copied it here (in clarification, I DID WRITE IT!).
HTML
HTML is an acronym for 'Hyper Text Markup Langauge'.
If you don't know what HTML is, it's essentially 'web page code'. You might notice whenever you try to 'bold' something in a forum the [(letter)]'s appear (unforunately, I can't write one without it being used) like [B] Bolded stuff here [/B] (Note, the periods are so it shows up).
These are called Tags. The first tag, (with just the letter) says 'Start this' and the second tag (with the /letter) means 'end this'. With the letter 'B" it means bold.
Now, there have been 4 versions of HTML, and a version of XHTML (which I will also cover).
HTML Version 1
Tim Berners first released HTML in 1989. His inspiration was for Researches in his University. Before then, the web basically was downloads only. They would upload their research, then someone else would download them, via means similar (if not just) FTP. His idea would allow people to view text, and change each 'page' with the click of a button. And his web browser, the very first, was called NeXT, which came out a year later.
HTML Version 2
Nothing much happened to HTML 2, not much was required to it. Essentially, it was just a version upgrade.
HTML Version 3
HTML was getting far more popular now, and webmasters were imerging everywhere. HTML was really starting to pick up.
A few browsers had immerged, but by far the clear leader was Netscape. And to appease the HTML authors they introduced a new (for the time) 'proprietary tags' which simply was: HTML tags for Netscape only. These were called Netscape extension tags .
This caused some HUGE problems. Other browsers tried to replicate the affects of the NETs, so they wouldn't die out, but it but things weren't always displayed the same way. This caused some confusion and irritations among the webmasters.
Then a man named 'Dave Raggett' came along and introduced a new draft of HTML 3. It promised for more power behind it. Unfortunately, the browsers only implemented some of these features, and did so slowly. So this new version was abandoned.
Because of this failure, the HTML designers decided all upgrades would be modular, meaning they could be added to in stages, which made it easier for the browsers.
HTML 3.2 (Wilbur)
The Browser specific tags kept on coming, and it became obvious that a standard needed to be implemented. To this, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded (in 1994) to standardize the langauge, and keep it growing in the right direction. Their first creation was named 'Wilburn' and was also refered as 'HTML 3.2'. This version didn't have as many features, as it gave the opportuinity for more to be created. A lot of the browser specific tags were thrown out (in the high 90%s).
In '97 it became an offical standard, but was later dethrowned by...
HTML 4 (cougar)
In the last iteration of the classic HTML, there was a large evolution of standards. Most of the functionality came in from HTML v 3. In '98 HTML 4 became the official langauge (Doubed in by W3C). Microsofts Internet Explorer latched onto this faster than Netscape (another reason why Netscape 'died out').
Then the last version of standard HTML came out, and it was very minor bug fixing and feature adding (nothing large at at all) and it was called:
HTML 4.01.
XHTML
Now onto XHTML.
XHTML is a combonation of XML, and XHTML. (XML is similar to HTML, but with more 'power' behind it, not very frequently used).
XHTML and HTML 4.01 are both considered standards, but XHTML has slowly been taking the lead. There aren't many new tags, but it has more efficient coding, and it has increased accessibility.
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