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Version Release Year Key Features and Changes
Introduced by the W3C with three versions: Strict, Transitional, and
Frameset. It added support for more multimedia content (e.g.,
HTML 4.0 1997
embedding audio and video) and enhanced forms while improving
accessibility features.
A major revision that included new semantic elements (e.g.,
<SECTION>, <ARTICLE>, <NAV>). It improved support for
HTML 5 2014
multimedia (e.g., <AUDIO> and <VIDEO> tags), enhanced parsing
rules, and integrated with modern APIs.
FEATURES OF HTML
HTML has following features:
HTML is neither a word processing tool, nor a programming language, rather it is a markup language
that differs completely from the programming languages.
HTML is the character-based method for describing and expressing the contents. The contents may
be a picture, text, sound and video clips.
HTML is a platform independent language i.e., HTML document can run on any type of operating
system or on any type of computer architecture like Macintosh computer, IBM computer, etc. HTML is
not case-sensitive.
HTML allows to format text, graphics, sound and video and save in an ASCll (American Standard Code
for Information Interchange) code.
HTML documents can contain links (called hyperlinks), this means a user can navigate from one page
to another as needed and can access and retrieve information from other sites.
PREREQUISITES TO WORK WITH HTML
To work in HTML, the user needs:
Text Editor
Web Browser
Text Editor
It provides the layout in which the text can be typed along with proper HTML syntax to create web pages.
Text editor can be character or graphical based. Some common examples of popular text editors are
Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Notepad++, Atom, Vim, Emacs, etc. The typed HTML text or codes are
saved with the extension .HTM or .HTML in the file name.
Web Browser
Web Browser is an application software that enables to display text, images, videos, music or other
contents which are coded in a text editor or embedded in a web page on the World Wide Web or on a
Local Area Network. Text and image on a web page can contain hyperlinks to other web pages in the
same or in different website. Browser allows a user to easily and quickly access the information that are
uploaded provided on different web pages of other websites by traversing through these links.
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