HTML5 & W3C.html (1774B)
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html><head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sitewide.css"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><meta name="exporter-version" content="Evernote Mac 6.13.3 (455969)"/><meta name="author" content="Alex Balgavy"/><meta name="created" content="2018-01-07 3:16:24 PM +0000"/><meta name="source" content="desktop.mac"/><meta name="updated" content="2018-01-07 3:27:36 PM +0000"/><title>HTML5 & W3C</title></head><body><div>initially, HTML was simple, but people began adding anything they could</div><div>each browser had different features — led to Balkanization, where each browser would e.g. only render a specific format image</div><div><br/></div><div><b>enter the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)</b></div><div>the ‘web parliament’, a standards body</div><div>mission is to make the Web “available to all people (no matter hardware/software/network infrastruct/language/culture/location/physical or mental ability)"</div><div>made up of ~400 academic, non-profite, and corporate organisations (e.g. Google, MS, Facebook)</div><div>first tried to develop HTML into XHTML2, but fucked up</div><div>eventually accepted WHATWG’s approach with HTML5</div><div><br/></div><div><b>a unified markup language — HTML(5)</b></div><div>initially, HTML — a bunch of tags to dictate format</div><div>HTML5 includes audio, video, pictures, words, headlines, citations, canvases, 3D graphics, email, etc.</div><div>can be validated against the W3C recommendation</div><div>first developed by WHATWG (Web Hypertext App Tech Working Group), then W3C</div></body></html>