Is HTML still the norm for creating websites? or is there another type on the rise?

Answer 1

half (well more than half) of the people above seems to not understand HTML, XHTML, Javascript, PHP, ASP, JSP, or any of them.

XML is a standard for general puprose plain-text data storing. It is NOT used for webpage designing, except partially in XHTML. It cannot replace HTML, since their purpose is completely in the different plane.

And lol, Javascript. It is just plain stupid to say it would be the norm for creating website.

XHTML is the next version of HTML, it is named differently, because XHTML is written to comply XML standard, while HTML is written to comply SGML standard. So you could open a _well-written_ XHTML file in an XML Viewer. Basically it's HTML on XML. You could, perhaps, say that XHTML is HTML 5. (much like Microsoft's releasing the latest version of VB as VB.NET, not VB7)

PHP, ASP, JSP (or loosely CGI) is a standard for Server Side Scripting. It is based heavily on HTML. Simply said, PHP or ASP is a script for server, which instructs the server how to output a webpage. And guess what the output is. It is HTML.

And simply said, people up there that said you don't need to know HTML to learn ASP, well, I'll just laugh on you. You surely have slept long enough in HTML classes to be unable to notice that you use HTML (very heavily) while writing ASP pages. To write an ASP page, you need to write a HTML page first.

I'll just have to say that PHP, ASP, and JSP is designed not to replace HTML, but to complement it, with the power of dynamics. especially since PHP, ASP, and JSP still needs HTML to work, because browser (like IE or Firefox) doesn't understands PHP, ASP, or JSP, when they met these files, they'd intrepret it as a HTML page. If the ASP, PHP, JSP page has been intreprated before by the correct intrepretator, it would resulted correctly in browser, but if it haven't, well... it would be horrible.

And oh, DHTML, yeah W3C once said: "Dynamic HTML is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated." It still uses HTML, in fact, it is HTML, with addition of CSS and Javascript.

And Flash, this bloated standard could never touch HTML. While having the size of the file being very big (thus eating up lots of bandwidth for user and server alike), and heavy to run on computers, Flash file is also non-human readable. And for browser to open a flash file, it needs Macromedia Flash Player to be installed and a flash supported browser. Most browser doesn't. Fortunately though for macromedia, most MAJOR browsers do. And, lol, most flash site need HTML to properly view it's flash content.

And the stupidest one is the one that says Java (not Javascript). I have no need to explain this one.

ALL (not most) of the standards devised above could never replace or even touch HTML grounds, there would never be any transition either (as XHTML is also HTML, so transition from HTML to XHTML can't be counted).

Answer 2

HTML is still there, but not the way it was when it started. At the beginning the HTML codes were used to built the pages which were totally static and now the same HTML codes are used in ASP (Active Server Pages) and JSP (Java Server Pages) mainly to built the dynamic pages in an indirect way (HTML codes are used in them). Also Scripts are used they mainly reduce the load at the server side. Scripts are programs that are executed at the client side. so some processing can be done at the client side consuming his/her machines power reducing server's load.

So instead of typing they are mixed up with the programming languages so that its much easier for developers... and effective too... PHP is also there, which has dynamic features...

Answer 3

html is the basis for all websites on your regular computer. There are many add-on scripts and features. XML is the backbone of one of the new scripts, that may someday take over. But you see, your browser FIRST works with HTML, so these over-ridding display languages will still have to have an HTML basis.

2 billion computers can't be upgraded all at once, so a transition will be slow.

Answer 4

Well yes HTML is the basics of web pages.

You may also use PHP, ASP, JSP....

ASP comes with the Microsoft .NET package and thus it is a component based programming, that is there is no need of u having a knowledge of HTML here. The coding in HTML is automatically generated. I used ASP thus i m writing abt it..........but yes people have recommended PHP to me.........

but anyways its ur choice.....choose something that u will more comfortable in...if u r planning to design a site.

:)

Answer 5

HTML is still the main way to create web pages, but most professional web pages also use lots of Javascript code, which is the best way to perform dynamic customization of pages inside the browser, and also provides the means to create what is referred to as Web 2.0 applications. Many sites also use Macromedia tecnologies, mainly Flash, to add animation and sound to web pages.

Answer 6

Xml, Dhtml, Flash, Javascript, Java.

Answer 7

HTML and Flash.
Because only this formats can be indexed by Google and maybe by other search engines.

Answer 8

Yes! html is still use... but PHP is the one that is being highly used today since it is scripting.

Answer 9

html is still there .. but more good options are like dhtml,asp ,xml because they provide good functionaltiy like dynamic pages ,connectivity to database and etc..in short which is impossible in html that is possibe in above options:)

Answer 10

XML is also widely used.