THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Different versions of HTML

HTML has been developed extensively over the years:

1992: HTML is first defined
1993: HTML+ (some physical layout, fill-out forms, tables, math)
1994: HTML 2.0 (standard for core features)
HTML 3.0 (an extension of HTML+ submitted as a draft standard)
1995: Netscape-specific non-standard HTML appears
1996: Competing Netscape and Explorer versions of HTML
HTML 3.2 (standard based on current practices)
1997: HTML 4.0 (separates structure and presentation with stylesheets)
1999: HTML 4.01 (slight modifications only)
2000: XHTML 1.0 (XML version of HTML 4.01)
2001: XHTML 1.1 (modularization to allow different subsets)
2002: XHTML 2.0 (simplifying and generalizing several tags)