The idea of markup languages was apparently first publicly presented by the engineer William W. Tunnicliffe (1922-1996) from Washington, D.C. In September of 1967, during a meeting at the Canadian Government Printing Office, Tunnicliffe gave a presentation on the separation of information content of documents from their format.
Die Werbetrommel für ein schnelleres Internet rührte Microsoft schon vor Tagen, jetzt liegen erstmals handfeste Informationen dazu vor. In einem Entwurf für die zurzeit tagende IETF-Arbeitsgruppe zu HTTP 2.0 führt das Unternehmen seine Ideen genauer aus.
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