Re: Two questions

Thank you for answering my questions, and adding additional information!
I will post such questions to the basics list in the future.

Thanks again,

Sara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" <srinivar(at)md3.vsnl.net.in>
To: "Sara Winters" <saraw(at)fcs.net>; <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Two questions


> Hi,
>
> I think this question belongs in the basics list. Anyway I'm sure you'll
> receive a lot more answers there, but not to disappoint you, here goes.
>
> HTML is a markup language. It is not a typical programmatic language that
> makes logic decisions. It is a presentation language telling the browser
the
> specific layout of a webpage / HTML page. However it is the browser's
> decision to lay out the page as it desires.
>
> CSS is also a markup language. One cannot call these languages as much as
> configurations. Sort of like typesetting a document. If you look at
> languages like TeX which also allow logic into the typesetting, you see
how
> HTML does not at all aspire to be even that.
>
> The primary reason may have been that at the time HTML evolved from SGML
it
> was felt that programmatic manipulations would not have to be done on the
> client side. After all the earliest goal of HTML was only to allow a
> hypermedia environment.
>
> Ofcourse the need for programmatic support was soon felt, and that is what
> you get with JavaScript, Java applets and ActiveX components to name a
few.
>
> HTH,
>
> -Srini
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sara Winters <saraw(at)fcs.net>
> To: <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 12:41 AM
> Subject: Two questions
>
>
> : Hello,
> :
> : I have two questions:
> :
> : 1)  HTML - I know this stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, but is
this
> : considered a
> : computer language, web language, coding language, scripting language?  I
> am
> : trying to
> : catagorize it.
> :
> : 2) CSS - Cascading Style Sheets.  Pretty much the same question as
above.
> : What kind
> : of language is it?
> :
> : Neither class addressed this and I would appreciate any information.
> Thank
> : you.
> :
> : Best Regards,
> :
> : Sara
> :
> :
>
>

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