Evolution of Internet Languages such as HTML and JavaScript
1. Evolution of JavaScript - Java Script is not a programmable language. It can't create an executable application. In late 90's different flavors of JavaScript were created.
Netscape continued with its versions while Microsoft released an alternative called "JScript" finally standardized version is known as ECMA Script.
With Java Script there was a scripting language which could be accepted as a web development tool. Java Script was the development of Netscape to browser in 1995. Originally , it is known as "LiveScript".
It underwent a name change for marketing purposes in response to the attention of Java programming language was receiving at that time.
2. Evolution of HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is used for creating web pages either dynamic or static.
Different versions were released :-
- HTML 1.0 - It was a first release of HTML to the world. Not so many people were involved in website creation. It is "simple text" on the web.
- HTML 2.0 - It added a few new features and defined many core HTML features. example - styles (bold,italic)
- HTML 3.0 - More and more people were getting into HTML. The webmaster create more abilities and "tags" and their "attributes" onto the web.
- HTML 4.01 - It was a large evolution of HTML standards. In this W3C is used , it also support presentational languages, CSS (Cascading Style Sheet).
- XHTML - In XHTML we combine the tags of HTML and XML. In this we use both predefine and user defined tags. It increase the accessibility and the functionality onto the web.
- HTML 5.0 - It includes specific function for embedding graphics, audio, video and interactive documents. In this web page using <article> tag, which defines an article, we have <nav> tag which defines navigation links and it includes <source> tag which defines media resources and the path from which graphics, audio, video were taken. HTML 5.0 also refer to as web application 1.0