Introduction to the History of HTML (excerpt)

In 1993, the Ietf,internet Project Task Force (Internet Engineering Task) was abbreviated. IETF called the Internet Engineering Task Force, founded in the end of 1985, is the world's most authoritative technology standardization organization, the main task is to be responsible for the development and development of Internet-related technical norms, most of the current Internet technical standards from the IETF, established HTML1.0.

1995, the World Wide Web Consortium, created by Tim Berners-lee in October 1994, is a nonprofit member organization that works on web standardization, an organization that creates and maintains WWW standards, Modified the HTML1.0 to establish and standardize the html.2.0.

In the following 1996 years of html3.2,1997 years html4.0,1999 html4.01,w3c in the original work to improve the standardization of the HTML work, and repair the HTML document.

But in the next few years, the development of HTML almost in place, HTML 4.0 seems to reach a peak, gradually derived from xhtml,xhtml is an extensible Hypertext Markup Language, is a labeling language, syntax is more rigorous than hypertext language, So in 2000, the world's original HTML based on the XHML to make 1.0. In subsequent years, the gradual refinement, derived to XHTML 2.0.

In 2004, WHATWG, a working Group on Web Hypertext Application Technology, was an organization set up to promote the Web HTML 5 standard. In 2004, a draft of HTML5 was established by the Opera, Mozilla Foundation and Apple browser makers. The reason why WHATWG was founded was that the company was trying to develop XHTML (a subset of Extensible Markup Language) technology by abandoning HTML. The Mozilla Foundation, Apple, and Opera software recommended that the new HTML (an application under the standard Universal Markup Language) be named "HTML5", following Whatwg's HTML5. In the same year, the new HTML Working Group adopted their proposal to merge the derivative XHTML into the HTML5 version in 2008.

Introduction to the History of HTML (excerpt)