HTML evolution

The Evolution of HTML5 as a Doorway to the Open Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee was the brainchild of the HyperText Markup Language, as with the World Wide Web itself. With the help of Robert Cailliau, the first successful communication between a server and HTTP client via the Internet, was implemented on Christmas Day in 1990. In 1992 he wrote a paper that describes the World-Wide Web (W3) global information system initiative (Berners-Lee, 1992)  in which he proposed fewer than two dozen elements that could be used for writing web pages. Currently Tim Berners-Lee oversees the World Wide Web’s continued development as the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Html 2.0 was introduced in November of 1995 by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). it included tags like form-based file upload, tables and client-side image maps (Raggett, 1998). In January of 1997 html 3.2 was introduced. It was the first version developed and standardised exclusively by the newly formed W3C, it included mostly visual tags (Raggett,1998).

Html 4 came along in April of 1998. HTML 4.0 supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities, and documents that are more accessible to users with disabilities (World Wide Web Consortium. HTML 4.0 specification, 1998).

Then along came XML 1.0. W3C Workshop determined that HTML 4.0 couldn’t be easily converted to an XML application and wasn’t sufficiently extensible for evolving needs so they proposed to integrate a new set of XML tag sets and the Working Group assigned the project presented with a new specification, known as XHTML 1.0.

XHTML 2.0 was a working draft, but work on it was abandoned in 2009 in favour of work on HTML5 (World Wide Web Consortium. XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML5). It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

References

Berners-Lee, T. J. (1992). The world-wide web. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 25(4), 454-459.

 

The Evolution of HTML5 as a Doorway to the Open Web. http://topshelfcopy.com/evolution-of-html5-as-doorway-to-open-web/ . Retrieved 29 September 2013.

 

Raggett, Dave (1998). Raggett on HTML 4. http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

World Wide Web Consortium. HTML 4.0 specification, April 1998. http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

World Wide Web Consortium . XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML5. July 17, 2009. http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-6601/ Retrieved 29 September 2013.