HTML5 & CSS3 Open a New Chapter in Website Design Industry
By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2010-11-02 02:20:07 | Word Count: 484
Most of the people in the web designing industry are aware the HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language while CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. These two languages are free, open source and compatible with all the browsers. These languages are search engine friendly and play an important role at indexing for the search engine list. The coding size is reduced by the CSS and this facilitates quick downloading. With reference to design and effect CSS is more flexible than HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recommended these two languages for website designing and developing.
Nothing is constant except change. This principle is apt for HTML and CSS too. In the market one can find many versions of HTML and CSS. HTML version 4.01, version 4.0, version 3.2, and version 3 are already available in market while HTML 5 is in the making. The versions of CSS that are available in the market include CSS 3, CSS 2.1, CSS Level 2, and CSS Level 1.
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IBM developed the first HTML language to aid the file transfer from one system to another. 1995 was the year when the HTML Version 2.0 was released, while the year 1996 saw the simultaneous release of HTML Version 3.2 and HTML Version 4.0. The World Wide Web Consortium released the XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 2.0. The first draft of HTML 5 was made ready in 2008. Most of the web development companies believe that the future of website designing is going to be dominated by HTML5 because it is going to most probably include features like video implantation void of separate codec or plug-in, separate threads in background for processing, canvas element, and offline access to email.
CSS is utilized to offer gorgeous style to the web page that is written with the help of a markup language. In 1996, W3C released CSS level 1. This was to prevail over the restrictions of HTML 3.2. The year 1998 saw the release of CSS level 2 that was created with the help of CSS level 1. In 1999 corrections were introduced in CSS level 1 and it was republished. CSS3 has been released to facilitate the service providers. This allows flexible and complex designs to be integrated into HTML. This technology is already being used by many custom web development service providers.
With passage the application of the internet and the utility along with relevance of websites is going increase exponentially. The technical and marketing complexities are going to increase. It is expected that the HTML 5 along with CSS will be successful at making things simple. It is sure that HTML5 is going to ride on the reputation its earlier versions.
