3. A little bit of history
1989
Tim Berners-Lee invents
HTTP 0.9 and httpd
HTML
WorldWideWeb
at CERN
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. A little bit of history
“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a
wide-area hypermedia information
retrievability initiative aiming to give
universal access to a large universe
of documents.”
9. A little bit of history
“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a
wide-area hypermedia information
retrievability initiative aiming to give
universal access to a large universe
of documents.”
10. A little bit of history
“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a
wide-area hypermedia information
retrievability initiative aiming to give
universal access to a large universe
of documents.”
<a href=”http://www.server.com/
document”>
11. A little bit of history
1991 - HTML Tags Draft 2000 - XHTML 1.0
1993 - HTML IETF Draft 2001 - XHTML 1.1
1993 - HTML+ Draft 20xx - XHTML 2.0
1995 - HTML 2.0
1997 - HTML 3.2
1997 - HTML 4.0
1999 - HTML 4.0.1 2008 - HTML5 Draft
16. Back to 1998...
1998 was a special year.
Dot Com Boom was in full swing
17. Back to 1998...
1998 was a special year.
Dot Com Boom was in full swing
I started working for a web agency
18. Back to 1998...
1998 was a special year.
Dot Com Boom was in full swing
I started working for a web agency
I started organizing underground
techno parties
19. Back to 1998...
1998 was a special year.
Dot Com Boom was in full swing
I started working for a web agency
I started organizing underground
techno parties
I met a guy called Schnitz
20. Back to 1998...
1998 was a special year.
Dot Com Boom was in full swing
I started working for a web agency
I started organizing underground
techno parties
I met a guy called Schnitz
I met my wife. On the Internet.
23. That guy called Schnitz...
Ran a small company called Stack Overflow
24. That guy called Schnitz...
Ran a small company called Stack Overflow
Was doing a lot of Javascript work
25. That guy called Schnitz...
Ran a small company called Stack Overflow
Was doing a lot of Javascript work
Was fed up with HTML Forms
26. That guy called Schnitz...
Ran a small company called Stack Overflow
Was doing a lot of Javascript work
Was fed up with HTML Forms
So he created his own Markup Language
27. That guy called Schnitz...
Ran a small company called Stack Overflow
Was doing a lot of Javascript work
Was fed up with HTML Forms
So he created his own Markup Language
And a server module that translated that into
HTML + Javscript
28. That guy called Schnitz...
Ran a small company called Stack Overflow
Was doing a lot of Javascript work
Was fed up with HTML Forms
So he created his own Markup Language
And a server module that translated that into
HTML + Javscript
He submitted that “Forms Markup Language” to
the W3C. XForms was born.
32. The year 2001...
2001 was a special year too.
Dot Com bubble burst
The agency I worked for went bankrupt
33. The year 2001...
2001 was a special year too.
Dot Com bubble burst
The agency I worked for went bankrupt
The company Schnitz started went bankrupt
34. The year 2001...
2001 was a special year too.
Dot Com bubble burst
The agency I worked for went bankrupt
The company Schnitz started went bankrupt
“A Space Odyssey” turned out to be Science Fiction
35. The year 2001...
2001 was a special year too.
Dot Com bubble burst
The agency I worked for went bankrupt
The company Schnitz started went bankrupt
“A Space Odyssey” turned out to be Science Fiction
Schnitz called me..
36. The year 2001...
2001 was a special year too.
Dot Com bubble burst
The agency I worked for went bankrupt
The company Schnitz started went bankrupt
“A Space Odyssey” turned out to be Science Fiction
Schnitz called me..
“Can we implement XForms in Flash? I have Budget”
45. The year 2003...
2003 was not a good year.
Funding for DENG ran out
Schnitz got a call
46. The year 2003...
2003 was not a good year.
Funding for DENG ran out
Schnitz got a call
Opera vetoed the XForms CR in “Last Call”
47. The year 2003...
2003 was not a good year.
Funding for DENG ran out
Schnitz got a call
Opera vetoed the XForms CR in “Last Call”
Opera counter-proposed “Web Forms 2.0”
based on HTML and HTML Forms
48. The year 2003...
2003 was not a good year.
Funding for DENG ran out
Schnitz got a call
Opera vetoed the XForms CR in “Last Call”
Opera counter-proposed “Web Forms 2.0”
based on HTML and HTML Forms
The W3C turned down the proposal
49. Opera, Mozilla and
Apple found the
WHATWG
Web
Hypertext
Application
Technology
Working
Group
50. In 2007, the W3C
decides, pressured by
the major browser
vendors, to move
forward with HTML5