Preface
Incredibly, it has been more than 20 years since the first release of HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language. In the early days of web development, HTML underwent a series of rapid evolutions, from simple text to including images and adding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format text.
Then in 1997 the introduction of HTML4 hit the market and everything came to a stop. Sure, we saw the release of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), but there was very little advancement in HTML as a language. Why the holdup? The reason was based on three major factors: Computers were limited in what they could process, the connection to the Web was limited to the speed of a user’s dial-up modem, and the Web was busily being molded ...
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