A Business-Centric Approach to Design System Strategy
Html 4
1. K N L U
G r o u p 6 2 - 1 7
L i l i a P a l a m a r
HTML 4.0
2. HTML?
The publishing language used by the WWW is HTML.
HTML gives authors the means to:
Design forms for conducting transactions with
remote services
Include spread-sheets, video clips, sound clips, and
other applications directly in their documents
Publish online documents with headings, text,
tables, lists, photos, etc.
Retrieve online information via hypertext links, at
the click of a button.
3. What does HTML 4.0 mean?
Hypertext Markup Language revision 4.0 is a
markup language that represents the structure and
presentation of web pages. HTML 4.0 was published
on December 1997 as a W3C* Recommendation.
*W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
4. A bit of history
HTML was originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee
while at CERN, and popularized by the Mosaic
browser developed at NCSA.
HTML 2.0 November 1995,
HTML+ 1993
HTML 3.0 1995
HTML 3.2 January 1996
HTML 4.0 1997
HTML 4.01 1998
5. Improvements
HTML 4.0 supports style sheets, scripting languages,
object support, more multimedia options, and
improved accessibility for users with disabilities,
among other features.
6. Improvements
There are 22 elements new to HTML in the 4
specifications, and they cover all the areas, from text-
formatting to tables and frames .
e.g. <abbr>
used to show an ABBReviated version of a word, and to offer the full version
<fieldset>
allows to group buttons and things together, giving you a framed container to hold them in
7. HTML4 (or HTML 4.01) is constantly evolving. The
next revision is HTML 5.0 which has been debated for
years and has a very complex process for
implementation, though many browsers currently
support some of the newer HTML5 features.
