While the W3C is still involved in web standards, a new group , the WHATWG , is busy creating a new standard for HTML: HTML5. The goal of HTML5 is to make sure that the HTML standard accurately reflects the state of the Web as it exists now. The WHATWG, or Web Hypertext Application Technology … Read more
The specification that followed HTML 4.0 was XHTML 1.0, which was followed by XHTML 1.1. The most significant new change introduced with XHTML was that it required that HTML documents to also be valid Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents . The X in XHTML stands for XML. XML is another markup standard derived from SGML. … Read more
When you’re working with a word processor or page layout program, styles are not just named elements of a page; they also include formatting information such as the font size and style, indentation, underlining, and so on. So, when you write some text that’s sup- posed to be a heading, you can apply the Heading … Read more
HTML , by virtue of its SGML heritage, is a language for describing the structure of a document, not its actual presentation. The idea here is that most documents have common elements—for example, titles, paragraphs, and lists. Before you start writing, therefore, you can identify and define the set of elements in that document and … Read more
When you create your web pages you have to give them file names of course. There are a couple of things that you should be aware of when you decide on your file and folder names. First, there are essentially two types of web server: Linux and Windows based. The file and folder names on … Read more
For a number of years web standards used various forms of HTML 4. The HTML 5 specification was finally completed in 2014 although many browsers already incorporated elements of the specification so there was no real delay before developers could start to use it. Now, the latest browsers largely support the specification. HTML 5 takes … Read more
An HTML page adheres to defined standards which you need to meet or otherwise the page will not display correctly. The point of having these standards is that you know the page will look more or less the same in whatever browser you use. If you don’t follow the rules you can’t be sure it … Read more
If you have a site which consists only of HTML web pages, the server merely sends the HTML data to the web browser as shown in the figure This is why HTML pages can be viewed locally in your web browser from your own computer since they do not need to be “served,” whereas dynamically … Read more