HTML 3.2 - What will the Web look like in the future?

In June 1993 when Tim Berners-Lee of CERN and Daniel Connolly, then of Atrium, released the level 1 HTML specification, there were only a few organizations and a handful of people involved in creating the specification for the HTML language. After only two years, there are well over 30+ organizations who are members of the World Wide Web Consortium and hundreds of individuals in the form of programmers, developers, information providers, and marketeers who drove the HTML level 3.0 specification. Add to this mix literally millions of users now clammering for more functionality in their browsers.

In this climate, development of a specification occurs much more slowly. There are more hands in the pie, lots of money to be made and lost, and egos at stake. Ultimately, the specification is driven primarily by the client (browser) developers such as Enterprise Integration Technologies, Microsoft, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Sun Microsystems, and probably most notably, Netscape Communications Corp.. These developers drive the spec by supporting new tags and by providing new functionality in their browsers.

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

Recently, the W3 Consortium developed the HTML 3.2 standard. The extensions to the HTML 3.0 specification from Netscape provide support for elements such as frames, subscript and superscript, big and small print specifications, and new paragraph attributes.

Here is an example of a document that has been enhanced using some of the HTML 2.0 extensions supported by the Netscape 1.1N browser.

Here is an example of a document that has been enhanced using some of the HTML 3.0 extensions supported by the Netscape 1.1N browser.

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