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HTML 5 Programming and Web development

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HTML is a markup language that is the foundation of the World Wide Web. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and it was created by Tim Berners-Lee.

About this Book

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This book focuses mainly on HTML 5 but also gives detailed information on other languages such as CSS, JavaScript, XML, SQL and server side scripting languages (ASP and PHP).

Introductory terms

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World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space where documents and other resources are identified by URLs interlinked by hyperlinks. The World Wide Web is a major part of the Internet.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the largest standards organization of the World Wide Web. It was founded by Tim Berners-Lee.

HTML 5

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