W3C

In 1993 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the internet). The idea of the W3C was to standardize protocols and the technologies used to create the web. The idea of HTML 4.01, PNG images and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were all part of the W3C.

By 2000 Internet Explorer 5 was released and featured great support for HMTL and CSS. The W3C changed to the use of XHTML which features much greater capabilities to web pages. XHTML had many flaws, it was not backwards compatible and it did not work properly on Internet Explorer.

In 2004 many representatives from Apple, Opera and Firefox gathered to make a HTML system that would add even more features but also make it backwards compatible. By 2007 about 3,000 people had come together to build what is now HTML 5.

HTML 5 was designed to make an innovative and standard web creation process for all developers. This allows many more features to be used by anyone on any web browser. They work by allowing the users and developers to speak up and contribute to make a standardized HTML web.

Features of HTML 5

Backwards compatibility

Ability to code games without the need for flash or JavaScript

Better for dynamic apps, websites with moving and interactive elements

Cleaner code, less is needed for the same code in HTML 4