Computer Careers Book
Monday, September 27, 2004
DHTML
This updates the article at:
DHMTL for Not Yet Techies
Dynamic HTML is not a technology in and of itself. As the
W3C, it's a marketing term used by Microsoft and Netscape
for things their 4.X version browsers could do.
Version 4.Xs of Internet Explorer and Netscape and the
advent of HTML 4.0, which allowed for all formatting to
be done by an external stylesheet, enabled the development
of DHTML, using Cascading Style Sheets / CSS. And JavaScript
was also an essential component of Dynamic HTML.
Since then, Netscape has lost its position as a major
browser. Internet Explorer has developed in many ways
but basically can display more multimedia options. HTML
has morphed into XHTML, but the only real change is how
certain tags are done to conform with XML.
Also, there hasn't been much change in JavaScript in the
past few years.
So probably the biggest change in DHTML is that most web
designers and developers use more advanced technologies
such as ASP.NET (formerly Active Server Pages) and PHP.
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