- it was one language
- it was easy to learn and write by hand
- it allowed images to be include in text
- it allowed hyperlinks to be put onto text or images.
Example - an address list:
<html/>
<head/>
</head/>
<body/>
<h2/> Ivan Herman </h2/>
<p/>
W3C Offices, CWI, Netherlands
</body/>
</html/>
which is displayed as:
Ivan Herman
W3C Offices, CWI, Netherlands
- HTML V1 combined content and presentation
- HTML V1 had no data typing, no continuous media, no clear semantics