The History of HTML
•Older features of HTML are often deprecated, or phased out, by the W3C.  That does not mean you can’t continue to use them—you may need to use them if you are supporting older browsers.
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•Future Web development is focusing increasingly on two other languages: XML and XHTML.
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•XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a metalanguage like SGML, but without SGML’s complexity and overhead.