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    BLANTYRE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

    Students Name

    Registration Number
    Lecture

    :
    :

    Program
    Information Technology
    Course

    : Bachelors of
    : Web Development

    Year

    : 2rd

    Semester

    : 2rd
    Assignment 1

    Due Date

    31 /8 /2012

    Question 1 . What does the acronym W3C stand for? And in your own words, why
    is it important?
    W3C is an abbreviation of World Wide Web consortium. The w3c is a
    board with members that work full time in insuring that standards of World Wide
    Web are met by different vendors, its importance also comes in because they
    develop new protocols and guidelines this leads to growth of w3c and also order
    amongst different developers.
    Question 2. Explain fully the background of the following markup languages
    a) HTML 4.0
    b) XML
    c) XHTML
    HTML 4.0 was originally developed by Tim Bermers-Lee while at the CERN
    and populated by the Mosaic browser developed at NCSA. During the 1990s
    HTML has extended in a number of ways, there version where developed
    during the period of 1993 -1997. The developers of HTML used Standard
    General Markup Language (SGML) syntax to create HTML, it resembles other
    SGML tag language though it began as simple than most (Anon., 2012). HTML
    4.0 was developed later it has mechanism of style sheets , scripting frames ,
    embedding objects ,improved support for right to left and mixed direction
    text , richer tables and enhancements to forms offering improved
    accessibility for people with disability (w3c, 2012).
    XML standards for extensible markup language, its main purpose is to make
    information on the internet viewable across many different platforms. XML
    was designed from 1996 through 1998 by a wide ranging group of markup
    language experts from industry and academia such as Hewlett Packard ,
    Microsoft , Netscape ,Adobe , Fuji Xerox , Isogen , Texcel , Text Encoding
    Initiative (TEI) ,NCSA ,James Clark ,OIBM . These group of companies had
    interest in internet standards; their work was mostly done via email and
    teleconference (Schneider, 2012).
    XHTML evolved out of HTML to serve an important purpose on the world wide
    web, as we all know most pages on the world wide web contain what is
    deemed as bad HTML, it is said to be as such because of certain errors within
    the codes such as missing closing tags, hence XHTML was created to combat
    these errors, by setting rules and should be followed such as all tags should
    be closed and all tags must be properly nested, XHTML set forth an
    improvement in HTML code. The first XHTML version 1.0 became W3C
    recommendation on January 26 , 2000 though it was not very different from
    HTML 4.01 , the combination of HTML and XML has leads to XHTML and later
    on XHTML 1.1 WAS INTRODUCED WHICH WAS NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM

    XHTML 1.0 the only difference being the introduction of modules in it


    (landofcode, 2012)
    Question 3. Create a website consisting of
    a)
    b)
    c)
    d)

    Form
    Text section
    At least a table
    At least one external link and picture

    CODE

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    <script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.js"
    type="text/javascript"></script>
    <link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.css" rel="stylesheet"
    type="text/css" />
    </head>

    <body>
    <table width="449" height="75" border="1">
    <tr>
    <td width="170"> Number of Men</td>
    <td width="263">Number of women</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>6</td>
    <td>6</td>
    </tr>

    </table>
    <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
    <span id="sprytextarea1"><span class="textareaRequiredMsg">A value is
    required.</span></span>This is a Jean to John wedding website, this site contains
    picture gallary of bribal party and details of every
    </form>
    <p>click here to access an external link to wedding pictures <a
    href="http://www.weddingwire.com/weddingphotos">http://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-photos</a> </p>
    <p>for comments please post here!!!! </p>
    <form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="">
    <span id="sprytextarea2">
    <label>
    <textarea name="text area" id="text area" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
    </label>
    <span class="textareaRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span>
    </form>
    <p align="center">This is the first page, watch out for second one</p>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    <!-var sprytextarea1 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextarea("sprytextarea1");
    var sprytextarea2 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextarea("sprytextarea2");
    //-->
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>

    Bibliography
    Anon., 2012. Wikipedia. [Online]
    Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language
    [Accessed 31 AUGUST 2012].
    landofcode, 2012. www.land of code.com. [Online]
    Available at: http://www.landofcode.com/xhtml-tutorials/xhtml-history.php
    Schneider, L., 2012. About.com. [Online]
    Available at: http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/techcareersskills/p/XMLSkill.htm
    [Accessed 31 august 2012].
    w3c, 2012. w3c .org. [Online]
    Available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/intro.html
    [Accessed 31 august 2012].

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