W3C HTML Activities
HTML is the lingua franca for publishing on
the World Wide Web.
XHTML is the latest version of HTML.
HTML Tutorials
To learn more about HTML, read our HTML tutorial.
To learn more about XHTML, read our XHTML tutorial.
HTML Versions
HTML 2.0
HTML 2.0 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force HTML Working
Group in 1996.
HTML 2.0 is an outdated version of HTML. All browsers available on the market today, rely on newer versions of HTML.
For a Web developer there is no need to study the HTML 2.0
standard.
HTML 3.2
HTML 3.2 was released as a W3C Recommendation 14. January 1997. HTML 3.2 added widely-deployed (Netscape) features such as
fonts, tables,
applets, text-flow around images, superscripts and subscripts, to the existing HTML
2.0 Standard.
One of the elements that was added to the 1997 HTML 3.2 standard - the
<font> tag - have introduced unnecessary complexity to the important task
of separating HTML content (text) from its presentation (style). The
<font> tag is expected to be removed from future versions of HTML.
HTML 4.0
HTML 4.0 was released as a W3C Recommendation 18. December 1997. A second
release was issued on 24. April 1998 with only some editorial
corrections.
The most important feature of HTML 4.0 is the introduction of style sheets
(CSS).
Our W3C CSS chapter summarizes the W3C CSS
activities.
HTML 4.01
HTML 4.01 was released as a W3C Recommendation 24. December 1999.
HTML 4.01 is a minor update of corrections and bug fixes in HTML 4.0.
W3C
will not continue to develop HTML. Future W3C work will be focusing on XHTML.
XHTML 1.0 (the latest version of HTML)
XHTML 1.0 reformulates HTML 4.01 in XML.
XHTML 1.0 was released as a W3C Recommendation 20. January 2000.
Our W3C XHTML chapter summarizes the W3C XHTML
activities.
W3C HTML Specifications and Timeline
 The XHTML specifications and timeline
are found in the next chapter.
W3C Reference:
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