About HTML

What is HTML?

HTML stands for the Hypertext Mark-up Language. HTML was invented at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (Geneva). It's an authoring language and distribution system developed for creating and sharing multimedia-enabled documents over the internet.

Web pages are pages created using HTML.

In the early nineties some bright students and lecturers at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois wrote a web browser called Mosaic. It was designed for viewing HTML documents. Mosaic became an instant success. Like most Internet software at the time, it was completely free. Millions of users snatched up a copy and began surfing the Internet. The key developers of Mosaic sensed potential riches and left NCSA to form Netscape Communications to produce the Netscape Navigator browser.

A browser is an application that renders HTML.
A Text editor is like a simple word processor and is used to write HTML.

HTML as a formatting language

HTML's main task is to format content onto the screen of someone's computer. The HTML code is usually sent over the Internet to a client, from a server. A program on the computer known as a browser then reads the instructions and renders the contents onto the computer's screen.
The browser is also known as the client.

From the NTU web policy at
http://www.ntu.edu.au/corporate/webpolicydraft/

The World Wide Web represents a new communication paradigm for educational information providers. With this medium come new responsibilities for document creation and maintenance. these responsibilities must be clearly understood and acknowledged, to ensure the information is kept accurate and up-to-date. This web policy provides a foundation which will enable the NTU community to publish documents to the standard expected by this University.

The purpose of the NTU Web site can be divided into four key areas:

promotional

teaching

research

administrative

The NTU Web site is managed through a model of distributed responsibilities. There are three levels of management and responsibility.

1. Infrastructure Management
2. Information Management
3. Information Producers

	Various Australian legislation relates to computer use.  In
	1999, the following Internet legislation was passed:
	Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill
	1999.  This will regulate what content providers are allowed
	to publish.

WWW acronym definitions

HTML

Hypertext mark-up language

HTTP

Hypertext transfer protocol

URL

Uniform resource locator

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