HTML History

1990: HTML invented by Tim Berners-Lee 1993: Mosaic browser adds support for images, sound, video to HTML 1994-~1997: Browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft, HTML defined operationally by browser support ~1997-present: Increasingly, World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendations define HTML

HTML Versions
HTML 4.01 syntax defined using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) XHTML 1.0 syntax defined using Extensible Markup Language (XML) Primary differences between HTML and XHTML: HTML allows some tag omissions (e.g., end tags) XHTML element and attribute names are lower case (HTML names are case-insensitive) XHTML requires that attribute values be quoted The following figure illustrates the relationship between the markup languages

For HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, the document type declaration can be used to select one of three flavors: Strict: W3C ideal Transitional: Includes deprecated elements and attributes (W3C recommends use of style sheets instead)

History of javascript
JavaScript, which is often mistyped as "Javascript", is an object-oriented scripting language based on the concept of prototypes. The language is most well known for its use in websites. Brendan Eich of Netscape originally developed JavaScript under the name Mocha it was then renamed to LiveScript but then it was settled to "JavaScript". JavaScript has syntax close to that of the Java language, but beside name and syntax there is no real relation between the two; their similarities are mostly in syntax (both derived from C); their semantics are quite different, notably their object models are unrelated and largely incompatible. JavaScript is embedded in a Web browser and connects through interfaces called Document Object Models (DOMs) to applications, one major use of Web-based JavaScript is to write little functions that are embedded in HTML pages and interact with the DOM of the browser to perform certain tasks not possible in static HTML alone, such as checking input values, changing images as the mouse cursor moves over, etc. Unfortunately, the DOMs of browsers are not standardized, different browsers expose different objects or methods to the script, and it is therefore often necessary to write different variants of a JavaScript function for the various browsers. The Mozilla platform, which underlies several common Web browsers, uses JavaScript to implement the user interface and transaction logic of its various products. JavaScript interpreters are also embedded in proprietary applications that lack scriptable interfaces. Finally, Microsoft's WSH technology supports JavaScript (via JScript) as an operating system scripting language.

Versions of JavaScript

Version 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5

Description Support Netscape 2.0 Netscape 3.0 Netscape 4.0-4.05 Netscape 4.06-4.7x Netscape server products Netscape 6.0