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===End of the first browser wars===
During 1998 Netscape released Netscape Communicator code under an [[Open-source license|open source licence]], enabling thousands of developers to participate in improving the software. However they decided to stop and start from the beginning, which guided the development of the open source browser and soon expanded to a complete application platform.<ref name="Browsers"/> The [[Web Standards Project]] was formed, and promoted browser compliance with [[Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML)|HTML]] and [[Comparison of layout engines (Cascading Style Sheets)|CSS]] standards by creating [[Acid1]], [[Acid2]], and [[Acid3]] tests. 2000 was a big year for Microsoft. Internet Explorer had been released for Mac, this was significant as it was the first browser that fully supported HTML 4.01 and CSS 1, raising the bar in terms of standards compliance. It was also the first browser to fully support the [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]] image format.<ref name="Browsers"/> During this time Netscape was sold to [[AOL]] and this was seen as Netscape’s official loss to Microsoft in the browser wars.<ref name="Browsers"/>
==History (2001—2012)==
Since the start of the 21<sup>st</sup> century the web has become more and more intergrated into peoples lives, as this has happend the technology of the web has also moved on. There have also been signifigent changes in the way people use and access the web, this has changed how sites are designed.
===The Modern Browsers===
Since the end of ''the browsers wars'' there have been new browsers coming onto the scence, many of these are [[Open source|open source]] meaning that they tend to have faster development and are more supportive of new standards. The new options are considered my many to be better that Microsoft's [[Internet Explorer]].
===New Standards===
The [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] has released new standards of HTML (HTML5) and CSS, known as (CSS3) as well as new [[JavaScript]] [[Application programming interface|API's]] each as a new but individual standard, however while the term HTML5 is only used to refer to the new version of HTML and ''some'' of the JavaScript API's, it has become common to use it to refer to the entire suite of new standards (HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript)
== Tools and technologies ==
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