TBL and the WWW
"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web."
— Tim Berners-Lee
CERN, 6 August 1991
The first website was put online on this date at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire.The 1990s — Web 1.0
HTML versions 1–4. Ideal of device independence fades as designers try to take command of the appearance, at the expense of semantic mark-up. Table-based layouts, non-compliant browsers.The 21st century — the semantic web
CSS, xhtml offer ways to return to semantic content while controlling appearance and achieving better cross-browser rendering.
Enough history! I want to start coding web pages now, shrimp!
We are definitely standing on the shoulders of giants here. The only reason I'm rehearsing the boring history lessons is to illustrate how we got here, and to demonstrate in practical terms why we do things the way we do them (and why we avoid certain other practices).
We are definitely standing on the shoulders of giants here. The only reason I'm rehearsing the boring history lessons is to illustrate how we got here, and to demonstrate in practical terms why we do things the way we do them (and why we avoid certain other practices).