W3C HTML activity

W3C HTML activity

HTML is a common markup language on the Web.

HTML tutorial

To learn more about HTML, read our HTML tutorial.

HTML version

HTML 2.0

HTML 2.0 was developed in 1996 by the HTML Working Group of the Internet Engineering Working Group.

HTML 2.0 is an outdated version of HTML. B rowsers currently available on the market rely on newer versions of HTML. For a WEB developer, there is no need for HTML 2.0 standards.

HTML 3.2

HTML 3.2 was released as a W3C standard on January 14, 1997. HTML 3.2 adds features that are widely used to HTML 2.0 standards, such as fonts, tables, applets, text streams around images, upper and lower labels.

One of these elements added to the 1997 HTML 3.2 standard - the hashtags - creates unnecessary hassles for the important task of separating HTML content from rendering.

HTML 4.0

As a W3C recommendation, HTML 4.0 was released on December 18, 1997. The second release, with only a few edits, was released on April 24, 1998.

Html 4.0's most important feature is the introduction of style sheets (CSS).

Our W3C CSS section summarizes W3C CSS activities.

HTML 4.01

As a W3C recommendation, HTML 4.01 was released on December 24, 1999.

HTML 4.01 is a minor update to HTML 4.0, which is fixed and bug fixed.

W3C does not continue to develop HTML. In the future, W3C's work will focus on XHTML.

XHTML 1.0 (latest version of HTML)

XHTML 1.0 re-represents HTML 4.01 using XML.

As a W3C recommendation, XHTML 1.0 was released on January 20, 2000.

Our W3C XHTML section summarizes W3C XHTML activities.

HTML 5

W3C released the draft HTML 5 work on January 22, 2008.

HTML 5 improves interoperability and reduces development costs by developing precise rules for how to handle all HTML elements and how to recover from errors.

New features in HTML 5 include features that embed audio, video, and graphics, client data storage, and interactive documents.

HTML 5 also includes new elements, such as: slt;nav>, slt;header?gt;, slt;footer?gt; and .lt;figure> and so on.

Html 5 teams include: AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and hundreds of other vendors.

W3C HTML specifications and timelines

You'll find out about the XHTML specification and timeline in the next section.

W3C Reference Manual:

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