The foundation of these notes is taken from Barry Luijbregts' PluralSight course called HTML, CSS, and Javascript: The Big Picture. The images are screen captures, a few of which have been edited. Some additional information is included from various sources, which are listed at the bottom of each post in the References section.
This post is part of a long-term series called The Web Series. To start from the beginning, check out History of The Web. The Web Series includes everything you need to get started on the path of web development.
Formatting conventions used:
<p> </p> These are HTML style tags.
<br /> This is also HTML.
<< >> These are just to frame the code. If you're using any code, do not copy these. For example, if it said << <a href="https://techkeen.com"> TechnicallyKeen</a> >> than you would only copy the following part:
<a href="https://techkeen.com"> TechnicallyKeen</a>This is only to keep the code snippets within their paragraph.
1990, November WWW Proposals formalised
Working together with Robert Cailliau, a systems engineer from Belgium, Sir Tim Berners-Lees rewrote the proposals as WorldWideWeb, Proposal for a HyperText Project.
1990 Original HTML
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web created the first specification of HTML and its first elements. It was not standardised yet.
1990 The first Browser
As a proof of concept, Berners-Lee had developed the first Web server and browser on a NeXT computer at CERN. At this point, the internet was covered in HTML.
1993 IETF proposed first official HTML specification, TCPIP standard too. Americans to improve internet.
1994 CSS first proposed as a stylesheet language. Other languages were also being proposed then, however W3C were already working on the HTML standard, so they added CSS to the deliverable of the HTML working group. This caused... [1996]
1996 The official recommendation of CSS1. This is considered a specification any browser can adopt. The browsers did adopt CSS1, but at first there was very little support of CSS in the major browsers.
1996 W3C maintains HTML with input from commercial software vendors. W3C was founded Oct 94 by Tim Berners-Lee
1998 CSS2 – fixes for CSS1
2000 Not a new version, but HTML officially became an international standard registered with the international organisation standard ISO, international electrotechnical commission IEC ISO/IEC 15445:2000.
2004 A new group that was founded by people from MOZILLA, apple, and opera called Web HT App tech working group (WHATWG) formed in response to the slow development of web standards by W3C. WHAT started working on 5.0, which was adopted by W3C as the way to go fwd. HTML5 IS NOW CONSIDERED THE LIVING STANDARD, so it is believed that there may never be a HTML6, 5 will just keep growing and adapting.
2004 CSS2.1 – W3C published 2.1 as candidate recommendation. Fixes and new features added. YO-YOed between candidacy and working draft until it was finally published as an official specification in... [2011]
2011 CSS2.1 – already working on CSS3
2011 CSS3-selectors , CSS3-color – CSS3 is just going to keep evolving like we’re doing to HTML5.
2012 CSS3-mediaquaries
2017 CSS3-UI
Future developments of CSS specification will reach level 4, and new modules will start at level 1, like:
2017 CSS Flexbox Level 1 Candidate Recommendation.
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