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)
It is available now albeit in different versions for different browsers
It is an extension of HTML and therefore familiar
It addresses many of HTML's shortcomings
It is focussed at "visual display" of a document and so is orthogonal to XML
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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