Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 March 99

Foil 39 Features of DHTML

From Overview of JavaScript II -- From Cookies to Dynamical HTML CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)
1 It is available now albeit in different versions for different browsers
2 It is an extension of HTML and therefore familiar
3 It addresses many of HTML's shortcomings
4 It is focussed at "visual display" of a document and so is orthogonal to XML
5 We can expect DHTML to change significantly in both implementation and syntax
  • in particular there will be an XML syntax version of VRML and HTML (XHTML draft February 24, 99 at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ )
  • The new version of DHTML will be built around a "document object model"
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