Overview of HTML
HTML = Hypertext Markup Language
- the lingua franca of the World Wide Web
- HTML is a simple language well suited for hypertext, multimedia and the display of small and reasonably simple documents
HTML 2.0 spec completed in Nov 95
HTML+ and HTML 3.0 never released
HTML 3.2 (Jan 97) added tables, applets, and other capabilities (approximately 70 tags)
- this is what most people are familiar with today
HTML 4.0 spec released in Dec 97