| HTML was created by Tim Berners-Lee. The HTML standard is now maintained by the HTML Working Group, which is a creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force. There are also working groups for various Web technologies, such as Virtual Reality Modeling Language. | Supplemental links (not a required part of the course) HTML Working Group | |
| The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a group of corporations and other organizations that...It is run by the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, | World Wide Web Consortium | |
| As you would imagine, the HTML standard itself is evolving as users demand more and more functionality. The first definitive version was HTML 2.0. It included the most basic elements such as titles, formatting, inclusion of links and images. HTML 3.0 was to appear in 1995, but it was never implemented. Instead, many of its features became part of the next official version, which was HTML 3.2. This version gave HTML the ability to specify such display elements as tables and precise alignment of images. It also allowed for blinking text, which immediately started showing up in Web pages around the world. | ||
| The HTML standard is now HTML 4.0. It allows for frames, embedding of multimedia files, and inclusion of Java applets, among other things. Older browsers will not understand the newest additions to HTML which are part of this standard, so they will ignore them. Web page designers need to keep in mind that not all visitors to a Web site will have the latest browsers, so they need to "write to the norm." This means they need to design their pages so that the older browsers will display an acceptable version of the page. |