The Unordinary Story of HTML5
In this lesson, let's unveil the unordinary story of HTML 5!
We'll cover the following...
HTML : A brief history
HTML is an acronym for Hypertext Markup Language. Although it had started its life as a document description language for sharing research papers at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), it became the basic technology of rendering web pages.
Since its emergence in 1980, it went through many modifications, while it reached the HTML 4.0 state at the end of 1997, when it was published as an official W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Recommendation.
From HTML to XHTML
Even W3C did not believe that HTML would survive the next century; so instead of moving forward with HTML, they stopped working on it.
W3C bet on HTML’s renovated successor, XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) that was to be built on XML. The main reason behind this decision was to enforce stricter syntax rules ...