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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the foundation upon which all Web pages
are built. Web sites and Web pages are written in HTML. With HTML and the
World Wide Web, you have the ability to bring together text, pictures, sounds
and links... all in one place! MVI is your source of superior HYML work call
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HTML files are nothing more than simple, structured text. Therefore, HTML
can be read by any number of operating systems such as Windows, UNIX and Mac
to name a few. However, plain HTML pages are often static and need the use
of other Web programming languages to make them dynamic.
Interest in and use of the World Wide Web has been expanding at a phenomenal
rate. As the Web grows, so must its vehicle of communication, HTML. The HTML
2.0 specification is dated November,1995. Since then, the HTML 3.0 draft specification
expired on September 28, 1995, without becoming recommended, and HTML 3.2
became a W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Recommendation on January 14, 1997.
Now we have the public draft for HTML 4.0, announced on July 8, 1997. This
draft is almost certain to undergo changes before being accepted by the W3C
as a Proposed Recommendation--if it does, indeed, ever become a recommendation.
In addition to this official work on HTML, the browsers have been making
their own additions to HTML. Some changes were eventually adopted into W3C
HTML Recommendations; others remain proprietary coding aspects that only the
individual browsers recognize. The browsers' versions of HTML changed, too,
in a game of marketing and programming one-upmanship, hoping to lock Web developers
into using one browser or the other exclusively.
HTML 4.0
In order to keep up with (or try to) the rapidly changing world of HTML,
we present here the changes between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0. HTML 4.0 introduces
eight new elements, deprecates ten (more about deprecation in a bit), and
makes obsolete three more. Frames, formerly only found in the browser versions
of HTML, join the official fold. Tables provide better tabular presentation;
forms more readily respond to the needs of the disabled; style sheets provide
for better formatting and presentation; and multimedia, scripting, and printing
are improved. And, as if that weren't enough, HTML 4.0 uses a different character-encoding
format that expands the number of alphabets and languages able to implement
Web documents.
New Tags in HTML 4.0: The W3C document "Changes between HTML 3.2 and
HTML 4.0" lists eight new tags in HTML 4.0.
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