Origin of HTML

[Jenniferlinn]

HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages.

Files and URLs containing HTML often have a .html or .htm filename extension.

Origins

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was an independent contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau each submitted separate proposals for an Internet-based hypertext system providing similar functionality. The following year, they collaborated on a joint proposal, the WorldWideWeb (W3) project,[1] which was accepted by CERN.

HTML is a product of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) which is a complex, technical specification describing markup languages, especially those used in electronic document exchange, document management, and document publishing. HTML was originally created to allow those who were not specialized in SGML to publish and exchange scientific and other technical documents.

1990

Tim Berners-Lee first started to come up with code for his WWW project in 1990. The first mention of him working on code for processing HyperText can be found in the original HyperText.m file that Tim worked on, dated 25th September 90.

From the 27th to the 30th November 1990, Tim and Robert Cailliau attended ECHT '90 - the European HyperText Convention. After ECHT '90, it appears that he had some more ideas about the (probably as yet unnamed) World Wide Web, and in the last few months of 1990, he started to produce more code, and also the first recorded HTML documents.

In fact, the earliest HTML document on the WWW at the moment dates from 13th November - a couple of weeks before the conference - as evidenced a HTTP HEAD request, which returns "Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT". The page is still functional in most modern Web browsers, and even contains a functional HyperLink!

SGMLguid + HyperText = HTML

The first official standard for HTML (HTML 2.0) came out in November 1995 and there are many versions since it's origin and each new version comes up with some improved features

[Jennysmith]

Hello Jennifer, Good article, nice post, thanks for sharing it on the board

[shennon]

Hi,

It's a great and informative post to know about Origin of HTMl.

[Sawa7]

Yes the HyperText Markup Language "HTML" is a form of Standard Generalized Markup Language but really isn't much of a language when compared to Perl or C. HTML files are stored in plain text ASCII format and therefor any text editor is an instant HTML editor, with the proper knowledge.

[phoenixlipo]

Hi,

We came across a possible opportunity to mark the delta between URI and Origins in the HTML 5.0 draft.

IE8 Beta 1 did not remove the trailing slash from e.origin in XDM. For example, e.origin would return https://mysite/.

The URIs ‘http://mysite and ‘http://mysite/’ are equivalent (empty path is same as ‘/’ path when URI scheme uses generic syntax for authority RFC 3986 5.2.4) and the normal form is ‘http://mysite/’ which is what we normalized to and returned in IE. This means, if the e.origin normalized URI is not the same string comparison that the web author is doing (because of syntactical differences like the trailing backslash), a check to validate the sending domain will fail.

It seems that Firefox 3 aligns more close with HTML 5.0 here, i.e, it does not return a trailing backslash. It’s probably worth clarifying that “Origin” as defined by HTML 5.0 is not a URI and it would be good to have guidelines on how to serialize “Origin” so it can be consistently used inside Javascript. (If it’s called out in the spec pardon me)

Nonetheless we want to make it easier for developers and have made the change to return http://mysite in Beta 2, making it consistent with FF3.

Let me know if there are any ideas here.

thanks,

[tony12]

But in my opinion php ans asp are much easier then html


but its just me

[denisejonesthequeen]

hey i have a curosity, that what is first website address? after discover of www.

[smithlanger1]

sounds good to me :|

[jameserics]

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[janiquebroune]

Here information is really nice and I like it and I know more this things in depth and HTML is best language and easy to use in web-development and this vast language and easy to implement,I use it,The browsers then translate those HTML instructions in order to control how text and graphics are displayed.
HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
- The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
- Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
Like this.
<html>
<body>
<p>HTML</p>
</body>
</html>

[ronoroa.zoro8]

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[daneyalkardy]

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