Basic HTML version of Foils prepared January 19 1999

Foil 30 Web Technologies in a Nutshell - DHTML

From Introduction to Object Web Technologies (Internetics) Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox


1 There is an emerging DOM or Document Object Model which will be uniform model used by W3C, Netscape, Microsoft
  • It allow you to address individual components of a page e.g. text box, image or collections thereof as separate entities
  • DOM is quite close to IE 4.0 conventions
2 Cascading Style Sheets allow one more powerful ways of assigning properties (such as color fonts etc.) to these components using either name(id) or type (<h2> tag etc.)
3 DHTML or dynamic HTML allows one to address the components of document and change on the fly (without reloading page) the properties of these components
  • This includes not only natural style properties but also position, size and "visibility"
  • DHTML currently handicapped by major differences between IE4 and Netscape 4 -- functionalities are similar but syntax very different
  • JavaScript combined with DHTML allows animations, graphs and replacement of just parts of text

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