Building Web Applications with UML

HTML

In addition to establishing the network connections and protocols for document interchanges, browsers also need to render the document on a display. TCP/IP and HTTP don't address this at all. The rendering of content is managed by the browser. This is where the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) fits in. HTML, used to express the content and visual formatting of a Web page, is a tag language based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a much broader language used to define markup languages for particular purposes. HTML is just one specific application of SGML, suited to the presentation of textual documents. HTML contains tags that define how text is to be formatted on the display: font, size, color, and so on. Some tags point ...