On 1 Dec 98, Steven J. Owens wrote:
> Dynamic HTML? No idea, although Cascading Style Sheets are
> certainly a lot more SGML-ish than HTML 3.0 font stuff.
First, nice summation of XML and how it does/could work...
As for DHTML. Hell, I don't think *anyone* knows what that means, from
the gurus at w3.org on down.
As far as Netscape and MSIE are concerned, DHTML appears to mean
"proprietary tags and scripting languages we use to make things jump
around on your page." Not an especially helpful definition.
It is certainly not a formal spec or standard, not as far as w3.org is
concerned. The closest I can find to a definition of DHTML at w3 is this
excerpt from a working draft on browser accessibility standards:
***
The interaction of HTML, style sheets, the Document Object Model
[DOM1] and scripting is commonly referred to as "Dynamic HTML" or
DHTML. However, as there is no W3C specification that formally defines
DHTML, this document will only refer to event handlers and scripts.
***
I dunno... whenever I hear the term "DHTML", I immediately start thinking
about "Alice in Wonderland":
"When _I_ use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful
tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more
nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you CAN make words
mean many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -
that's all."
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