[egypturnash]

Is HTML ever actually defined in the beginning of this book? There’s a reference to what the acronym expands to when tags start getting introduced but the chapters before this never come out and say “HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and here are three sentences that very briefly explain what that means; we’ll be exploring that in much more detain in the coming chapters.”

[egypturnash]

I’m getting downvoted for this question but I think that is a pretty important thing to be getting out of the way in a book for someone who might not know what the heck HTML is, and why they might want to learn it!

[runeks]

I disagree. People reading a book on how to write HTML already have an idea of what it is — why else would they read the book?

And, in any case, explaining what HTML stands for does not get anyone closer to understanding what it is.

I think it's a feature that this book doesn't throw technical jargon at the reader before they've even created anything useful yet.