From: Harvey Newstrom (newstrom@newstaffinc.com)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 00:55:32 MST
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote on Monday, December
27, 1999 2:35 am,
> Why are there so many revisions in such a short period of time?
The first HTML was different for every browser or platform. HTML 2.0 was
the first standard. Industry mostly ignored it. HTML 3.0 was the first
standard that got buy-in from various vendors. HTML 4.0 added international
support for different languages, handicap support, and style-sheet support.
- 1985: Xerox creates a hypertext system called NoteCards
- 1985: Apple creates a hypertext system called Intermedia for Unix on the
Macintosh (A/UX)
- 1987: Apple releases their HyperCard product which was the first widely
available hypertext app
- 1989: HTML 1.0 first documented, but different in every implementation
- 1991: First cross-platform browser, Mosaic, released for Macintosh,
Windows and Unix
- 1992: HTML 2.0 first standardized HTML
- 1996: HTML 3.0 added cross-vendor support with agreements from IBM,
Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, etc.
- 1998: HTML 4.0 added international support, handicap support and
style-sheets
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://harveynewstrom.com> Certified Consultant, Legal Hacker, Engineer, Research Scientist, Author.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:06:12 MST