Messing with HTML By Jon Poret

We have to write a blog post and be creative, so I decided the best thing to do would be to write in unicode and type the whole post in HTML.

Now I've changed the font color and background using HTML. The code do to that for some reason cant be shown in the text. I tried to show it, but the website just sees it as more code, so here's a screenshot.

HTML is somewhat confusing, but I find it to be similar to Java.

I could make writing this much easier for me by just composing the blog post normally, but then I wouldn't be able to

make it invisible like this

Try highlighting the line above this one. Cool, right? I did that in HTML using some very basic code. I learned the HTML needed to make this while writing this blog post too. HTML is a tag based language, meaning that everything is written inside tags. Tags allow me to perform all sorts of strange code within the text, which created some of the effects i used in the blog post.

I can also use HTML to create things that aren't available using the normal composition page,

Like creating a new title

This isn't an available option in the composition window, but I can code it in HTML. In theory, I would be able to make subtitles too.

so if there is a class called subtitle in the blogs code, this will work.

I've concluded that the class subtitle looks more like bolded text than anything, so that's rather useless.

HTML can also be used in many ways other than creating websites, such as finding exploits and breaking websites. One famous example of this is the self retweeting tweet that developer Andy Geruhn was able to use an exploit found in the twitter extension TweetDeck that caused a tweet he wrote to automatically be retweeted if a user who was using TweetDeck found the tweet in their feed. Because of the exploit he found, his tweet was found on many famous Twitter Accounts, such as the BBC.

Here's a video that explains what happened really well.

All in all, HTML is fun to use to mess around with to build and break websites, but it's not even half of what is used to code and create websites. Usually the languages CSS and Javascript are used as well, but the backbone of the websites code is usually done in HTML.