Getting started with HTML

What is HTML?

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. The language is designed for creating Web pages. It is a not a programming language or designing language, it is a Markup Language.

Hyper Text means a text that points to some other text or link. The link  can be an  url of some other web page, picture or video. Markup stands for marking up like marking a place. So basically, HTML draws a blueprint of website design. 

History of HTML

HTML was created by Berners Lee in 1991 but HTML 2.0 was the first standard specification released in 1995. HTML 4.01 was a major version of HTML which was published in 1999. 

It was widely used version but later the next version published in 2012 which is HTML5 .

HTML5 is the most popular version of HTML

Application of HTML

HTML provides  a lot of application. Some of them are as follows:

Web pages development

HTML is used to create pages which are rendered over the web. Almost every page of web is having html tags in it to render its details in browser.

Internet Navigation 

HTML provides tags which are used to navigate from one page to another and is heavily used in internet navigation. It used Hypertext for this purpose.

Responsive UI 

HTML pages now-a-days works well on all platform, mobile, tabs, desktop or laptops owing to responsive design strategy.

Offline support 

HTML pages once loaded can be made available offline on the machine without any need of internet.

Game development

HTML5 has native support for rich experience and is now useful in gaming development arena as well.

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