HTML5 Programmer’s Reference

Introduction

The World Wide Web has existed for almost 25 years now. It started as a simple proposal by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau as a way for the scientists at CERN to publish papers easily, but it rapidly grew into a platform that captured the imagination of the world.

The Web may have started out as a simple document-publishing platform, but it quickly became clear that it was destined to become much more than that. As people demanded more interactivity and richer experiences, the limits of the original HTML standards quickly became obvious. The advent of other technologies like Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript helped, but developers were still spending extensive resources on building the experiences that people wanted.

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