Roberto Scano offers a detailed and informative history of website accessibility: "The first web revolution happened on the 14th January 1997: HTML 3.2 was issued from a consortium called the W3C, a consortium not yet known to web developers. As written in the document's introduction, HTML 3.2 is the W3C's specification for HTML, developed in early 1996, together with vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, SoftQuad, Spyglass, and Sun Microsystems. HTML 3.2 added widely deployed features such as tables, applets
Accessing data on the Internet using current technology is slow. Pages are slow to render because they are being built by server processes. The processes building these pages are slowing down your server because your server is generating HTML rather than transmitting files. Since, on the client, the data in a page is indistinguishable from the page that contains it, additional requests are made to the server to manipulate the data.
Data binding is a new feature of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE 4.0) that enables authors to create Web pages that
Accessing data on the Internet using current technology is slow. Pages are slow to render because they are being built by server processes. The processes building these pages are slowing down your server because your server is generating HTML rather than transmitting files. Since, on the client, the data in a page is indistinguishable from the page that contains it, additional requests are made to the server to manipulate the data.
Data binding is a new feature of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE 4.0) that enables authors to create Web pages that
Creating Valid HTML Documents Means Cleaner Code and Easier Maintenance
I'll be the first one to let you in on a secret: building Web pages isn't hard. With the software that is available now, you can write your Web page and have it up and viewable in half an hour. And with these tools, why would you need to run an HTML validator on your HTML to find errors? Well, you don't have to, but if you want your pages to stay viewable through future versions of HTML, or you want newer browsers to be able to display it correctly, then writing valid HTML is the
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