What is Dynamic HTML?
- A collection
of Web technologies
- including those in HTML 4.0 (W3C standard) <S>
- HTML
plus...
- Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS1 and CSS2) <S>
- specify fonts, color, margins, line spacing, etc.
- Cascading
Style Sheet Positioning (CSS-P) <S>
- absolute positioning on x, y and z coordinates
- Document
Object Model (DOM) 1.0
<S>
- Dynamic re-drawing of any part of a Web page
- Dynamic
HTML Event Model <W>
- New intra-object event-handling capabilities
- Client-side
Processing and Scripting
- JavaScript
- Microsoft JScript
- ECMA-262 JavaScript <W>
- Microsoft VBScript
- Microsoft ActiveX
- Java
- Dynamic (embedded) fonts <S>
- Data Binding and Awareness <W>
- Multimedia Controls <W>
- Event Bubbling <W>
- Canvas mode <W>
| <S> = W3C Recommendation | <W>= W3C Work in Progress |
What is DHTML good for?
- For developing
dynamic Web pages
- Pages that change on-the-fly
- Plug-in free animations
- Web page (3D) layering
- Create special
effects
- Complete layout control and positioning
- Easier to develop consistent Web pages
- Exploit client computer processing power
- HTML extensibility (inc. XML)
- In essence, to truly program Web content
Dynamic HTML Authoring Tools
- Macromedia DreamWeaver - ITL favorite, rave reviews
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 - good, but very MSIE-biased
- NetObjects Fusion 3.0 - corporate favorite
- GoLive CyberStudio 3 - popular, Mac only
- NetObjects ScriptBuilder
- Astound Dynamite