Tutorial 1 Getting Started with HTML5/Session 1.1 Visual Overview - Introducing HTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

A compact offshoot of SGML, used to define new markup languages.

Extensible Markup Language

A compact offshoot of SGML, used to define new markup languages.

style sheet

A document that describes how different Web page elements should be rendered.

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

A group of Web designers and browser manufacturers formed with th mission to develop a rival version to XHTML 2.0, called HTML5.

Standardized General Markup Language

A language introduced in the 1980s that describes the structure and content of any machine-readable information. The first popular markup language; used to design HTML. SGML is device-dependent and system-dependent.

markup language

A language that describes the content and structure of a document by identifying, or tagging, different elements in the document

internal style sheet

A style sheet built into a web browser.

XHTML 2.0

An aborted version of XHTML, created to provide robust support for multimedia, social networking, interactive Web forms, and other features needed by Web designers.

World Wide Web Consortium

An organization of Web designers and programmers that creates a set of standards or specifications fro all browser manufactures to follow.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

The language of Web pages used to describe the structure of documents through markup tags and create interconnected structures using hyperlinks

HTML5

The latest version of HTML, which supplanted XHTML 2 as the future Web document language.

deprecated

The process by which obsolete features of HTML are phased out.

tagging

The process of marking elements within a document

XML vocabularies

markup languages developed using XML.