Some
examples
- Browser
requirements:
- Netscape Communicator 4.x or
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) 4.x
- Some examples work on either
- Macromedia DHTMLzone (both)
- Project Cool (both)
- Incognito Media (both)
- Microsoft Gallery (MSIE only)
What is Dynamic HTML?
- A collection
of Web technologies
- including brand new HTML 4.0 W3C standard
- HTML plus...
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1)
- Cascading Style Sheet Positioning
- Document
Object Model (DOM)
- DHTML object model
- Dynamic re-drawing of any part of a Web page
- New intra-object event-handling capabilities
- Client-side
Processing/Scripting
- JavaScript
- Microsoft JScript
- ECMAscipt
- Microsoft VBScript
- Microsoft ActiveX
- Java
- Dynamic fonts and canvas mode
- Data Binding & Awareness
What is DHTML good for?
- Develop
dynamic Web pages
- Plug-in free animations
- Web page (3D) layering
- Tight graphics control
- Create special effects
- Change custom pages on-the-fly
- Tighter look-and-feel control
- Typesetting-like positioning
- Easier to develop consistent Web pages
- Exploit client computer processing power
- HTML extensibility (inc. XML)
Dynamic HTML Authoring Tools
- Macromedia DreamWeaver - rave reviews
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 - great!, but MSIE-biased
- Astound Dynamite
- NetObjects Fusion and ScriptBuilder - soon
DHTML Issues
- Too new, still evolving... (as of Spr'98)
- Requires Netscape or MSIE 4.x browsers
- Many
differences between Netscape and MSIE
- They will adhere to W3C recommendations
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Additional
DHTML Resources: