HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
HTML—the HyperText Markup Language—is the lingua franca for publishing on the World Wide Web. Having gone through several stages of evolution, today's HTML has a wide range of features reflecting the needs of a very diverse and international community wishing to make information available on the Web. HTML 4.0, created by W3C, became a Recommendation in December 1997. A revision, HTML 4.01 was published in December 1999.
Benefits
Web sites built using standards-compliant HTML can be viewed by the wide variety of web browsers in use today, and will continue to work as the browser technologies evolve. The Internet has begun to be accessed through new devices other than the classic computer and web browser arrangement. PDAs and phones are already being used to access the Internet. In the near future, appliances like refrigerators are envisioned to include Internet access. Some say that sometime in the near future, 75% of Internet viewing will be carried out on one of these new platforms. XHTML-compliant web sites are the only way to be sure that your content can be viewed as these devices access the Internet.
Prepare for the future
Decisive Technology can help you quickly transform malformed, non-standard, and quirky web sites into standards compliant ones. Once we have transformed your site to use XHTML you will find it easier to maintain, since it is built on a more simplified set of standards. Code becomes more streamlined, as the need for browser hacks and display tricks are eliminated. XHTML-compliant code is cleaner and more self-explanatory. Browsers can interpret and display a clean XHTML page more quickly than one with errors that the browser may have to handle.
