Role of HTML in Web
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, opting to concentrate on providing the content and structure first and worry about the presentation later.
This was because the group for whom he was designing the environment consisted of scientists looking at technical information—hardly a group looking for the latest in fonts and graphic design techniques.
The presentation would be left up to the browser.
The HTML language eventually was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), which serves as a base for defining markup languages.
Much of the flavor of HTML is a structured language (instead of a presentation language).
Deployed by late 1991, the Web grew slowly at first.
In its early years, it was characterized by a textual interface that was unattractive and somewhat difficult to use.
However, much of the infrastructure necessary to make the Web work— including basic HTML, HTTP, and MIME—was in place long before the Web took off.
While the division of structure and style suggested by HTML was a good design decision, it has proven to be a huge point of conflict in the Web community.
At first, the Web community was a homogenous bunch of folks, mostly researchers and academics.
As the Web matured and its community expanded, however, calls arose to make it easier to use and for it to provide multimedia facilities.
In 1993, Marc Andreessen, an undergraduate working for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois, was involved, with others, in developing a graphical browser for the Web.
This graphical browser, called Mosaic, made the Web much easier to use.
Features of Mosaic Browser
Inline Images: Making the web a visual experience
The number of web servers exploded into the hundreds
Web landscape was dominated by media, marketing, entertainment, and commercial Web sites of all shapes and sizes.
The first-generation Web provided relatively harsh pages, with gray backgrounds and left alignment. In first-generation (Mosaic) pages, centering text was even impossible.
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