Datasheet

Crowder c01.tex V3 - 05/26/2008 7:16pm Page 5
The Basics of Building Web Pages and Sites 1
shown in separate windows. Figure 1-1 shows the first graphical browser created by Berners-Lee
at CERN.
WorldWideWeb had significant font-manipulation capabilities. Users could adjust the font size,
select from a range of font types, align elements, work with tables, lists, and so forth, and gen-
erally implement the features associated with HTML 1.0 — which was the dominant version of
HTML from 1989 to approximately 1994. WorldWideWeb was the first browser to incorporate a
basic HTML editor to allow users to work with and edit Web pages.
At almost the same time, a graduate student at University of California, Berkley named Pei Wei
had independently developed a Web browser that was, in many respects, almost identical to
WorldWideWeb. It also possessed a few features that were more advanced than the Berners-Lee
model. It incorporated such advanced features as inline graphics, embedded stylesheets, tables,
and scripts, as shown in Figure 1-2. It was, in the words of James Gillies and Robert Cailliau in
their book, How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web (Oxford University Press,
2000), ‘‘the most feature rich browser at that time’’ and ‘‘was to set the standard for everything to
follow it....’’ Certainly the violaWWW browser was good enough for CERN, which used it as the
main browser for its lab units until the development of Mosaic.
FIGURE 1-1
WorldWideWeb was the first graphical browser.
5