The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. This specification defines HTML version 3.2. HTML 3.2 aims to capture recommended practice as of early 1996 and as such to be used as a replacement for HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866).
While HTML 3.2 does not contain all the new features in discussion at the World Wide Web Consortium, it provides a firm basis for more extensive specifications that are in preparation. HTML 3.2 is an important specification for applications in which wide cross-platform interoperability is required, and for documents that may ahve long lifetimes, independent of individual technology suppliers.
This document is in the course of review by the members of the World Wide Web Consortium. This is a stable document derived from the working draft WD-html32-960924.html. Details of this review have been sent to members' representatives.
HTML 3.2 represents the collaboration, consensus, and commitment of support of the W3C HTML ERB participants, which represent a significant proportion of the market in HTML-related products.