{"id":108,"date":"2006-08-24T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/is-html-a-scripting-language\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T19:49:28","slug":"is-html-a-scripting-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/is-html-a-scripting-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Is HTML a scripting language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this confusion come up from time to time &#8211; is HTML a scripting language? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Short answer: no.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes a nerd detail, but nonetheless, this is something that should be made clear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE DETAILS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HTML is actually a <em>markup language<\/em> and not a scripting language.<\/p>\n<p>Scripting implies decision making capabilities (the code can actually evaluate and take an action based on what it finds) &#8211; PHP, PERL, Ruby, Javascript are examples of scripting languages.<\/p>\n<p>Markup languages create structure for a document &#8230; they only describe data. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HTML<\/li>\n<li>XHTML<\/li>\n<li>XML<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but you knew that already.<\/p>\n<p> [;)] <\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this confusion come up from time to time &#8211; is HTML a scripting language? Short answer: no. Yes a nerd detail, but nonetheless, this is something that should be made clear. THE DETAILS: HTML is actually a markup language and not a scripting language. Scripting implies decision making capabilities (the code can actually &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,9],"tags":[100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}