{"id":2051,"date":"2010-09-11T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T00:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2010-09-11T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T00:22:28","slug":"html-nerd-trivia-what-exactly-is-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2010\/html-nerd-trivia-what-exactly-is-html\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML nerd trivia: what exactly is HTML?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi,<\/p>\n

Once in a while, it can be fun to look at the deeper meaning of the technologies behind web design. So let’s start with the most basic: what exactly is HTML?<\/p>\n

HTML is short for:<\/p>\n

Hyper Text Markup Language.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a nutshell: HTML is a written language used to mark-up a page. Think of marking-up like placing markers on a field. These markers give instruction to people who understand what the markers mean. In the case of web design, replace ‘makers’ with tags, a web page for a field and people with web browsers – like Internet Explorer or Firefox. To summarize:<\/p>\n

markers = html tags\/text
\nfield = web page
\npeople who read markers = web browsers<\/p>\n

.. Confused? Then check out this screencast on basic web design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s ‘Hyper’ in the Text?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently discovered that many a web designer and programmer may not really know that in HTML, hyper text is a reference to the links – links are the ‘hyper text’ in the markup language. The text in a web page that is turned into a link, is made ‘hyper’ because when you click on it, the web browser takes you to another page, or downloads a file etc … It’s kinda hyper active, like a 5 year old who’s had too much sugar.<\/p>\n

There are other markup languages that predate HTML btw, languages like SGML. In fact, SGML is the father\/mother of HTML.<\/p>\n

Now you can impress your next date with this information. That’s all for now.<\/p>\n

Stefan Mischook.
\nwww.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" <\/p>\n

Hi,<\/p>\n

Once in a while, it can be fun to look at the deeper meaning of the technologies behind web design. So let’s start with the most basic: what exactly is HTML?<\/p>\n

HTML is short for:<\/p>\n

Hyper Text Markup Language.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a nutshell: HTML is a written language used to mark-up a page. Think of marking-up like placing markers on a field. These markers give instruction to people who understand what the markers mean. In the case of web design, replace ‘makers’ with tags, a web page for a field and people with web browsers – like Internet Explorer or Firefox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051"}],"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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}