HyperText Markup Language

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[edit] General

This is a language, like XML, which was developed by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva as a way to create documents that were dynamic in nature, requiring (at least in the beginning) no significant training in computer programming, and allowed content to be easily developed and distributed. The format used is with a "pure" text format with no embedded control codes, secret recipes, or magic decoder rings required.

The format used is with a "pure" text format with no embedded control codes, secret recipes, or magic decoder rings required. Of course, as time has moved on, the language and its capabilities have grown in complexity along with a distressing tendency for all of the companies and organizations that develop Web Browsers to create incompatible and largely unnecessary extensions to the language with an apparent intent of encouraging people to develop Web Pages that would "break" the competitor's Web Browser. The situation, however, is improving, with many companies and organisations moving towards Standards-based web development/design, enabling the web to be what it was originally designed to be: available to everyone on any browser, on any platform/device.

[edit] See Also

• World Wide Web Consortium - The people who make the standards for the web.
• Web Standards Project - An leading organisation for the promotion of the use of good web standards.
• 456 Betea Street - Lots of good articles about good web design covering general practices, languages, URI schemes, appropriate use of markup tags, browsers, accessibility, usablility.