Network Working Group D. Connolly Internet-Draft World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Category: Informational November 1998 Updates: RFC 1866 <draft-connolly-text-html-00.txt>
Larry Masinter took this, revised it, and submitted it thru IETF channels; see: The 'text/html' Media Type, October 13, 1999. It's in IETF last call:
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The text/html media type was originally defined in [HTML20] in Nov 1995. Extensions to HTML were proposed in [HTML30], [UPLOAD], [TABLES], [CLIMAPS], and [I18N].
The IETF HTML working group closed Sep 1996, and work on HTML moved to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The extensions were incorporated, to some extent, in [HTML32], and to a larger extent, in [HTML40].
An excerpt from [HTML32]:
This specification defines HTML version 3.2. HTML 3.2 aims to capture recommended practice as of early '96 and as such to be used as a replacement for HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866).
A complete list of changes from version 3.2 to version 4.0 is contained in Appendix A: Changes in [HTML40].
The text/html media type is now defined by W3C recommendations; the latest version is [HTML40]. See section 4.3 The text/html content type.
Larry Masinter provided the original spark, and much encouragement since, for producing this document.
Daniel W. Connolly
World Wide Web Consortum (W3C)
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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