Website Design and Development with HTML5 and CSS3

2The Language of the Web: HTML5

An Internet site is formed by a set of connected resources or web pages, generally associated with a well-defined topic, which are made available to Internet users through a web address.

Today, an Internet site represents the most modern means of publication and communication. Creating a web page requires the use of a specific language, called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).

HTML is a “markup” language that is used for the creation, representation and structuring of the content of a web page by means of formatting elements or tags.

These tags have well-defined meanings, such as inserting an image, creating a link or a paragraph, etc., and are generally inserted into the text of a document before being interpreted and displayed by the web browser.

HTML is a standard published by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

2.1. Overview

2.1.1. Origins of HTML5

• – 1986: Creation of the first ever SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) for structuring various types of content. This language was considered very complex in order to be applied to the Web, hence the need to introduce a new, more lightweight language based on the same concepts.
• – 1991: Creation of the first version of the HTML language (HTML 1.0) by Tim Berners-Lee, in the form of a personal invention.

• – 1994: Appearance of the second version of the HTML language (HTML 2.0); this version was the cornerstone of subsequent generations of HTML. HTML 2.0 is a W3C recommendation.
• – 1996: ...