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'''Hypertext markup language''' or '''html''' is a set of tags and rules (conforming to and a subset of [[SGML]]) for using them in developing hypertext documents [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=html]. It is a | '''Hypertext markup language''' or '''html''' is a set of tags and rules (conforming to and a subset of [[SGML]]) for using them in developing hypertext documents [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=html]. It is a formatting and markup language used to make hypertext documents for use on the Web. HTML resembles old-fashioned typesetting code or the [[SGML|Standard Generalized Markup Language]], where a block of text is surrounded by ''tags'' that indicate how it should appear. HTML allows text to be ''linked'' to another file on the [[Internet]] similar in practice to Vannevar Bush's proposed [[Memex|Memory Extender]] or Memex for short. HTML is a [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] standard used for creating [[World Wide Web]] pages. | ||
[[Tim Berners-Lee]] created the original HTML (and many associated protocols such as [[HTTP]]) on a [[NeXTcube]] workstation using the [[NeXTSTEP]] development environment. | [[Tim Berners-Lee]] created the original HTML (and many associated protocols such as [[HTTP]]) on a [[NeXTcube]] workstation using the [[NeXTSTEP]] development environment. | ||
Revision as of 00:02, 8 April 2007
Hypertext markup language or html is a set of tags and rules (conforming to and a subset of SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents [1]. It is a formatting and markup language used to make hypertext documents for use on the Web. HTML resembles old-fashioned typesetting code or the Standard Generalized Markup Language, where a block of text is surrounded by tags that indicate how it should appear. HTML allows text to be linked to another file on the Internet similar in practice to Vannevar Bush's proposed Memory Extender or Memex for short. HTML is a W3C standard used for creating World Wide Web pages.
Tim Berners-Lee created the original HTML (and many associated protocols such as HTTP) on a NeXTcube workstation using the NeXTSTEP development environment.
Tags
Like most markup languages, HTML uses tags to convey information.
Current Version
The HTML standard is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (commonly shortened to W3C). The current official version of HTML is 4.01 which was ratified in December 1999. 4.01 is a minor step from 1997's 4.0 standard.
XHTML
HTML has been partially replaced by Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), which is a reformulation of HTML using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The current version of XHTML is [2], which was released in 2001.
See also
External links
Tutorials and guides
HTML Markup Validators
- W3C's Markup Validator
- WDG HTML Validator
- Validators and checkers (Site Check)
- Off-line HTML Validator v1.0 for Windows
Other specifications
- Web Applications 1.0 A specification generally referred to as "HTML 5". The Web Hypertext Application Technology working group are an independent initiative who cooperate with the W3C.