If you are new to creating web pages,
or even if you've been around for a while, you may have
run into a few acronyms
that you're not quite sure what they mean, and more importantly,
how they differ from one another. Here are some definitions
to help you out:
HTML
HTML
stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the language
used to write Web pages. HTML is based on SGML (Standard
Generalized Markup Language), which is the International
Standard for text markup.
DHTML
DHTML stands for Dynamic HTML. Its HTML that is changeable
even after a page is loaded into a browser. There are a number
of technologies used to make HTML change dynamically, including
JavaScript, VBScript, the Document Object Model (DOM), layers,
and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The use of these technologies
is essentially what DHTML is all about.
XML
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML, like HTML,
is also based off of SGML. XML is a language for writing
markup
languages;
it was designed specifically for use on the web.
XHTML
XHTML is HTML 4.0 redefined to meet the XML standard. There
aren't a lot of major differences between HTML and XHTML:
Information for this tip was taken from
the About
Guide for Web Design/HTML, Jennifer Kyrnin.
what do all those acronyms stand for?
