RFC - 1866

Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1866.txt
Authors:	T. Berners-Lee [MIT/W3C], D. Connolly []
Date:	November 1995
Category:	Informational
This specification has been !!! obsoleted !!!
This specification has been assigned to Historic level (A specification that has been superseded by a more recent specification or is for any other reason considered to be obsolete.)

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Obsoleted by:
RFC-2854	The 'text/html' Media Type

Referred by:	43 RFC
Refers to:	6 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are platform independent. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of domains. HTML markup can represent hypertext news, mail, documentation, and hypermedia; menus of options; database query results; simple structured documents with in-lined graphics; and hypertext views of existing bodies of information.

HTML has been in use by the World Wide Web (WWW) global information initiative since 1990. This specification roughly corresponds to the capabilities of HTML in common use prior to June 1994. HTML is an application of ISO Standard 8879:1986 Information Processing Text and Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

The "text/html" Internet Media Type (RFC 1590(-> 2049^draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047^draft | 2046^draft | 2045^draft)) and MIME Content Type (RFC 1521(-> 2049^draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047^draft | 2046^draft | 2045^draft)) is defined by this specification.

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