[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.