Category: 4. Fact

As mentioned above, Hypertext Markup Language isn’t a programming tool but a markup language for structuring content on the web. This means that HTML doesn’t involve algorithms in the traditional sense because it doesn’t perform computations or logic like programming languages do.

An <iframe> (short for inline frame) in HTML is an element that makes it possible to embed another HTML document within the existing document. Many web page creators use it to design a frame or a window within a web page where external content, such as another webpage or media, can be displayed. The basic syntax for an <iframe> looks like this:

<iframe src=”URL” width=”width” height=”height” frameborder=”0″></iframe>

Google launched the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project as an open-source initiative to improve the performance of web pages on mobile devices. AMP uses a subset of HTML with specific rules and restrictions to speed up loading times on smartphones. This subset is essentially a streamlined version of standard HTML.

You can find all the information about HTML standards on a single page. The page contains everything from the history of HTML to the latest technical specifications of this markup language

XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a stricter version of the same markup language. While HTML has a more forgiving syntax, XHTML requires stricter adherence to rules. It was also designed to be more compatible with XML (Extensive Markup Language). 

This version is more flexible when it comes to the standard HTML code, which means it’s much easier to upgrade and align it with the forthcoming versions of XML/HTML.  

The most popular browsers all support HTML5. That includes browsing giants like Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. 

The HTML ecosystem is continuously evolving to add new features and make changes that help web developers improve their web applications. The latest version, HTML5, was released in 2008. Each solution brought something new to the existing infrastructure: 

• The original HTML (1993): A simple format with limited fonts and simple styling features
• HTML 2 (1995): Added new elements such as tables, buttons, and text boxes
• HTML 3 (1997): Added interactive forms and better image management
• HTML 4 (1999): It enriched HTML documents with new tags, table improvements, and CSS links
• HTML 5 (2008): Introduced all sorts of HTML tags — section tags, audio tags, semantic tags, etc. 

The World Wide Web Consortium has been managing HTML since 1996. It’s a non-profit organization with over 400 members and 12,000 developers who participate in the development of web standards based on these principles:

• Accessibility
• Privacy
• Internationalization
• Security

However, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) officially became the only publisher of HTML in 2019. 

HTML is often misconceived as a coding or programming language, primarily due to the widespread colloquial use of the term. However, HTML is actually a markup language. Here’s the difference in a nutshell: 

• Programming languages: Developers use them to build apps and operating systems
• Markup languages: These are presentational tools that determine how information will look like on a web page

Berners-Lee is a computer scientist who worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) when he designed HTML in 1993. The system soon started spreading to create a whole network called the WWW. That’s also why Berners-Lee’s name is often added to the lists of scientists who invented the Internet.