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It was essential for a better way to make information available over the networks. This led to the development of HTML as a Hyper Text Markup Language meant to markup the texts differently, so the pages served across the network are more informative and content is more readable. Right from the start till now, the html has been the underlying concept of internet page transfers. A webserver just sends a page that is marked up in HTML tags and the browser from the client side deciphers the HTML tags and displays the text according to the markups that have been resolved.

HTML is a W3C standard that places specific meaning for every tag. For example, a tag like <bold> ABC</bold> will just display the test ABC in bold fonts. The HTML pages are in its raw form just these tags and the displayed content is according to the Tag interpretation by the HTML parser of the web browser. The CSS or Style sheets added much more meaning to the tags in HTML and made it a modular design for the web pages. The linking of HTML file with other constructs like JavaScripts, VBScripts etc made it much more powerful and simpler for implementation.

The development:

The initial HTML standard that came out as a version HTML 1.0, did not have any dynamic content related tags. There were only the static pages which had the “hyper links” which will link the pages to different web pages. The web was just  storehouse of information. But soon that began to change, internet became a space for interaction and dynamic computation. This led to the developments over the standard that was HTML. It began to give out different branches of itself called the XHTML, DHTML and it also emerged into different versions. The XHTML was the one that had XML base integrated with HTML and the DHTML offered dynamism through the use of Java script.

Whatever be the technology or concept that the webpage is based on, be it AJAX, PHP or any other such things they all eventually aim to generate the underlying html content. The final output that the browser is going to render is going to be HTML in most cases. The web development can just be using HTML for development but that proved to be lot more work than usage of other libraries like PHP. But with the HTML5, HTML has become more of a comprehensive suite for web design needs.

HTML 5:

With evolution of the video, flash and other types of media content over the internet, HTML finds itself in a place where it has to rise up from being just a specification standard. Thus the HTML 5 incorporates all the capabilities that were previously available from php and other tools into itself. HTML 5 has evolved as a package that can do anything that web 2.0 and other user interactions ask for, from a web page. HTML 5 is all ready to make itself the web standard.