Document Formatting and display

Question 1

What is a markup language?

Answer 1

A set of standard formatting symbols incorporated into a document to direct the computer how to use and display it

Question 2

What are the current markup ancestors?

Answer 2

Generalised Mark-up Language and Standard Mark-Up Language.

Question 3

What is HTML?

Answer 3

Hypertext Markup Language. A simple mark-up language derived from the ideas of SGML. Based on the use of tags that defined how text should be displayed. It was TB-L’s solution to document formatting

Question 4

What was TB-L’s solution to read HTML formatted text?

Answer 4

A browser. This piece of software could read and display HTML formatted text. (the OG version could also edit/create HTML docs)

Question 5

What were the 5 main standards of HTML authorised by the W3C?

Answer 5

HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01 and HTML 5 in 2014

Question 6

What is tag-soup?

Answer 6

Very messy HTML that is incorrect, non-standard ad/or incorrectly used

Question 7

What is CSS?

Answer 7

Cascading Style Sheets. It was developed to simplify and improve document formatting. Its purely focused on appearance issues and lets HTML focus on the structural aspects.