A writer could publish her work and be reasonably sure that anyone could read it. Of course, as soon as people heard that you could reach anyone with a computer on the Internet, people thought of advertising goods and services for a profit. The Death of HTML 3.0 HTML 3.0 was a strong markup language that would have allowed people to write clearly-outlined documents, with support for tables, and even support for the display of mathematics. Unfortunately, HTML 3.0 died on the vine because of lack of support from Microsoft and Netscape. This is a prime example of Microsoft and Netscape's disregard for Internet standards, and their killing-off of HTML as a viable publishing standard for the common person.
Style sheets are familiar to some people with a desktop publishing background.
These style rules allow authors to simplify their documents, while preserving document structures and maintaining similar styles from document to document.