Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

With a keen eye on small Web access devices, a major standards organization on Tuesday recommended a stripped-down version of its replacement for HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gave its ...

This article is excerpted from HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition, by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, with permission of O’Reilly Media, Inc. All ...

Programming in the Web’s Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is more akin to the mundane chores of typesetting than the mystical art of code slinging. The HTML tags that control elements like headlines, ...