Role of HTML in Web (part-1) HTML is just one part of a larger process for building and delivering Web pages. The Web includes the pages themselves, built with technologies such as HTML, the software and hardware that serve up the pages, the Internet and its connectivity issues, and the browsers that render the pages. The document author has very little control over anything other than the structure of the page. How quickly it gets to an end user, and what it looks like on the end user’s browser, can vary from browser to browser. Web also allows open access to any platform, which is what makes it so powerful. Historical Roots of HTML In 1989, Berners-Lee had the task of creating a hypertext delivery environment that could be used as an interface to scientific information, and that could render this information equally well on Macintosh systems with small screens, NeXT Workstations, IBM PCs, and a variety of other platforms. Berners-Lee developed the first versions of HTML, op...