Re: Green screen - it's time is over

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:45:32 -0600
 "Hall, Philip" <phall@spss.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> > Again, as I said before, this is all one which source
> you
> > use.  DHTML, in it's entirety (since it's definition
> and
> > uses keep changing) is using CGI, Javascript, and
> > stylesheets or any combination of these.
>
> I think(*) you might be talking about dynamic HTML
> creation (server-side)
> rather than DHTML in the WC3 sense, where you have much
> more control over
> the placement (in real-time, based on user interaction)
> of the page elements
> within the browser withoou having to ask the server to
> recreate/resend the
> page.
>
>
> (*) but I could be wrong

No, you're right.  But, the code needed for this "real time"
interaction can be created by CGI, and a lot of the time is.
Again, it's mainly Javascript and stylesheets that allow
this real time interaction.  Everything already exists as
part of the web page (either embedded in the HTML or
externally, like a CSS).  There is no client/server
interaction with DHTML to change fields, etc...

It's HTML with a supercharger, but still HTML.  It's not
like an applet where there is actual client/server
interaction.

Whether it's dynamically created on the server, or static
files that already exist, it's still DHTML, even in the W3C
sense.

Brad
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