INTERNET DRAFT Dave Raggett, W3CExpired 28th Sep 1995 email: <dsr@w3.org>
This document has been superceded. Please seethe HTML 3.2 Materials
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The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup languageused to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platformto another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semanticsthat are appropriate for representing information from a wide range ofapplications. HTML markup can represent hypertext news, mail,documentation, and hypermedia; menus of options; database queryresults; simple structured documents with inlined graphics andhypertext views of existing bodies of information.
This specification defines the capabilities of HTML version 3.0 andprovides additional capabilities over previous versions such as tables,text flow around figures and math. It is backwards compatible with HTML2.0.