HTML5 Standards

• HTML5 is the latest version of HTML.
• HTML5 includes HTML (Markup Language), CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) and Javascript(Programming language executed by the browser)
• HTML5 is still under development.
• Two HTML standards decide how the HTML is updated, behave and revised
  • World wide web consortium (W3C)
  • Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group(WHATWG)

World wide web consortium (W3C)

• W3C is the main international standard organization for the worldwide web.
• W3C makes the HTML standards.
• W3C standards are ahead of browsers.
• It was founded and led by Tim Berners-Lee.

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group(WHATWG)

• It is the community of organizations or peoples interested in evolving HTML and related technologies such as opera software, Mozilla, Apple, etc.
• They began work on the new standard in 2004.
• In 2006 W3C showed an interest in HTML5 and 2007 they created a working group to work in the HTML5 project.

Some HTML History

• Late 1980's - Tim Berners Lee invented the www.
• 1991 - Html First Published
• 1995 - HTML 2.0
• 1997 - HTML 3.2
• 1999 - HTML 4.01. After HTML 4.01 was released, the facus was shifted to XHTML first version and its stricter standards.
• 2000 - XHTML 1.0, An XML version of HTML 4.01
• 2001 - XHTML 1.1, Modularization
• 2002 - XHTML 2.0, Simplified and generalize
• 2012 - HTML 5 (HTML 5 was officially launched in 2012)