Introduction To (Html)

Since the publication of this article in 2007, The internet, computers and Hyper Text Markup Language (Html) has undergone many changes. If fully adopted, the reformulated Html will definitely impact the web design industry in a positive way. In order to address the growing needs and demands of today's web designers and developers, the W3C finally introduced a new markup language called HTML5.

Given the lack of browser support for the specification, I haven't publish any Html5 documents as yet, but I've been exploring and experimenting with it for a while now and found certain aspects that I dislike, and some that don't make much since to me. Regardless, if you are a newbie or a seasoned professional, there's allot to be excited about in HTML5. You can read more on my opinion on the new Html5 at my blog.

Before Html5

Hyper Text Markup Language has become the preferred online publishing Programming specification for coding WebPages so they can be interpreted by computers and displayed in almost any web browsers. However, Html is not a general-purpose tool for organizing and labeling text and graphics. It uses a predetermine set of markup language that can be expanded only by agreement and alteration of html's underlying markup language description.

Limitations Of Predefined Html Markup Elements

Html is a pre defined closed markup method and not an open-ended markup language. Adding new markup elements to the language was not part of its built-in capabilities. The closed ended nature and limitations of html is the main reason for the many different versions we have become familiar with over the past years. 1993 saw the public introduction of html 1.0. Since then, it has slowly progressed to its last updated version html.4.01 published in 1999.

Html is a display-oriented language and nothing has changed it's original concept or purpose. Gradually it has progressed with the incorporation of new markup methods and capabilities, in an attempt to meet today's web designer's needs for more functionality. Unfortunately, browser manufactures with few exceptions, continue to ignore standard requirements specifically engineered to eliminate the inconsistencies in html document display on all platforms.

Transition To Xhtml Standards

Rest assured, Html is not dead, and it will never die in spite of its limitations and lack of processing flexibility. Html is going through a transition as I write this article.  It will remain the building block for most web applications, computer data tabulation, WebPages and websites, way into the future.

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