Saturday, January 25, 2014

A Little History of the HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Tim Berners-Lee first came up with HTML in this particle physics lab (CERN). I did a little research and I think CERN is basically a scientific lab where scientists explore and research about the universe. I'm not too sure why HTML links to that, though... This is their website:













The original HTML looks like this:

<HEADER>
<TITLE>HyperText Mark-up Language</TITLE>
<NEXTID N="29">
</HEADER>
<BODY>
<H1><A
NAME=4>HTML</A></H1>The <A
NAME=0 HREF="../TheProject.html">WWW</A> system uses marked-up text
to represent a hypertext document
for transmision over the network.
The hypertext mark-up language is
an <A
NAME=7 HREF="SGML.html">SGML</A> format. WWW parsers should
ignore tags which they do not understand,
and ignore attributes which they
do not understand of tags which they
do understand.<P>
To find out how to write HTML, or
to write a program to generate it,
read the following sections:-
<DL>
<DT><A
NAME=23 HREF="Text.html">Default text</A>
<DD> How text is interpreted
when uninfluenced by tags
<DT><A
NAME=2 HREF="Tags.html">The tags</A>
<DD> A list of the tags used
in HTML with their significance.
<DT><A
NAME=24 HREF="Entities.html">Entities</A>
...

Notice how the tags are in capitals and there are lots of names... But a lot of it is quite familiar!

Today I think the most recent is HTML 5. It looks like this:

<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>

    <h1 id="big-title">HTML5</h1>
    <p class="no-num no-toc subline">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</p>
   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="w3c-candidate-recommendation-6-august-2013">W3C Candidate Recommendation 6 August 2013</h2>
   </header><dl><dt>This Version:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-html5-20130806/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-html5-20130806/</a></dd>
    <dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/</a></dd>
    <dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
    <dd><a class="latest-link" href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/">http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/</a></dd>

      <dt>Previous Versions:</dt>
      <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/</a></dd>
      <dt id="specification-editors">Editors:</dt>
      <dd>W3C:</dd>
      <dd><a href="http://berjon.com/">Robin Berjon</a>, W3C</dd>
      <dd><a href="mailto:sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com">Steve Faulkner</a>, The Paciello Group</dd>
      <dd><a href="mailto:travil@microsoft.com">Travis Leithead</a>, Microsoft</dd>
      <dd><a href="mailto:Erika.Doyle@microsoft.com">Erika Doyle Navara</a>, Microsoft</dd>
      <dd><a href="mailto:eoconnor@apple.com">Edward O'Connor</a>, Apple Inc.</dd>
      <dd><a href="mailto:silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com">Silvia Pfeiffer</a></dd>
      <dd>WHATWG:</dd>
      <dd><a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">Ian Hickson</a>, Google, Inc.</dd>
   </dl><p>
     This specification is also available as a  <a href="single-page.html">single page HTML</a> document.
   </p>

 ...

That's how much HTML has changed from 1992! I personally think it's just syntax, really...





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