It’s used to create documents on the World
Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee was the primary author of HTML (developed in 1990),
assisted by his colleagues at CERN. HTML is used to design a web page to be
displayed in a web browser. The web browser reads the HTML code and display the
content. The code is written in the form of tags (like <>) with
attributes.
HTML documents are usually delivered by HTTP form a web server.
There are some WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, which allow you
to lay out the design of your web page using GUI and the editor creates the
corresponding code. The fifth revision of HTML, HTML 5 keeps up with the new
multimedia technology and is mobile friendly. HTML 5, supplemented with CSS 3 and
JavaScript does away with (previously required) external plugins like Adobe
Flash or Microsoft Silver light. The Berners-Lee and is currently headed by him,
is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
