The year is 1989 and there's a man named Tim Berners-Lee. Tim looks a lot like a scienc-y, late-career, Bradley Whitford but without the molestache.
Tim was putting together a mix tape of Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, and KISS when when he thought: "I need a better way to share my science-stuff.doc file withe the world." and
BOOM. The Web.
[personal introduction]
- a way for computers to identify other computers
- Plaintext publishing format
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- way of requesting documents
- Hypertext Markup Language
- markup language for publishing documents on the web
- SGML plus
<a>for linking to other documents
- 25 years later HTTP and HTML are STILL the primary interfaces of the web
- Every web-developer needs at least a cursory understanding of HTML to put pages and apps on the internet
- Web frameworks that had abstracted or circumvented HTML have fallen out of vogue (SproutCore, Cappucino, Flash, Java)
- Web frameworks that embrased HTML have gained tremendous traction, not only on the web, but on mobile (PhoneGap, Angular, Ember, Jquery)
- API is a confusing mess of old and new tags
- Like multiplication tables: learn and move on
- Everything wrapped in
tags - Similar to styling a word document:
- Select section
- Wrap in openning and closing tags
- Every tag that is opened must be closed, in order
- Tags have two default display typse
- Block (takes up 100% width) - headings, paragraphs, blockquotes
- Inline - anchors, strong (bold), emphasised (italicized)