HTML5 Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling by Anselm Bradford & Paul Haine

Author:Anselm Bradford & Paul Haine [Bradford, Anselm & Haine, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Computers, Html, Programming Languages
ISBN: 9781430238614
Publisher: Apress
Published: 2011-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Where it all began: img

Early in the evolution of HTML it became apparent that the platform needed to support some form of mixed media embedded into a page—at the very least images. Work toward implementing an HTML element that could be used for images and other media was occurring in early 1993 when 21-year-old Marc Andreessen proposed and later implemented the self-closing img element in the Mosaic web browser.1 Mosaic is credited with being central in enabling the Internet boom of the 1990s by moving web browsers from text-based systems to graphics-enabled applications that more readily appealed to a nontechnical audience. Despite reservations about img's limitations (others wanted an element that could embed a greater variety of media than just images), the img element is still here today. Not much has changed in HTML5, other than the removal of the attributes align, border, hspace, and vspace, the functionality of which should be created through CSS.

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1 Marc Andreesen's original message proposing the img element is archived at http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html.

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