Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 4 Overview of HTML

From An Introduction to XML Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken,Ozgur Balsoy, Tom Scavo
1 HTML = Hypertext Markup Language
  • the lingua franca of the World Wide Web
  • HTML is a simple language well suited for hypertext, multimedia and the display of small and reasonably simple documents
2 HTML 2.0 spec completed in Nov 95
3 HTML+ and HTML 3.0 never released
4 HTML 3.2 (Jan 97) added tables, applets, and other capabilities (approximately 70 tags)
  • this is what most people are familiar with today
5 HTML 4.0 spec released in Dec 97
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