Although I've had many online journals, I've never had one with a specific purpose in mind, so hopefully I won't wander too far off topic here...but bear with me if I do because I do love writing in journals...
http://www.webmonkey.com/97/17/index0a.html?tw=authoring
Since I know next to nothing about how the internet works or was developed, I went on a search for some history. This is a short article giving a quick review of how html was created & expanded. It talks about the simplicity of the language being text-based & how this allowed anyone with a basic word processor to to create documents for the Web. From the article I get the impression that innovations & improvements in html come about largely through trial & error- developers put new ideas out there & let the internet community decide if the new 'tags' will become commonplace or not. There is resistence to allowing companies like Netscape or Microsoft gain proprietary versions of html. The original concept was one of content negotiation & die-hards want it to remain that way.I'll post more as soon as I find them!
~Kate
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