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Since the creation of the first Web site by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN, the Web has evolved from an environment hosting simple and static hypermedia documents to a platform for the execution of complex applications. The first Web sites consisted of collections of documents encoded in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The displayed contents (both text and graphics) were static, meaning that they were explicitly specified in the HTML document and formatted by means of special HTML elements defining presentation properties. Since then, several new technologies have progressively enriched the Web scenario.
The very first evolution step aimed at extending the presentation capability of HTML through a better separation of content and presentation and through the inclusion of client-side scripting and pluggable components. This improved the page interactivity and enabled the client to execute business logic (e.g., the validation of data inserted through forms).
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Casteleyn, S., Daniel, F., Dolog, P., Matera, M. (2009). Technologies. In: Engineering Web Applications. Data-Centric Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92201-8_2
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