Re: The *New* HTML!

[Mary McWilliams Johnson <mary -at- SUPERCONNECT -dot- COM>]

George, there are those of us who are going to wait quite a while before we
get excited about DHTML.
To quote from Taylor's Dynamic HTML Tutorial on the WebMonkey site: 
        http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/10/index0a.html?tw=dynamic_html

              "After months and months of press-release hype and stories about
              browser wars, source-code giveaways, and religious conversions
              (not to mention the fiercely heated, long, boring, tedious,
stupid
              debates in certain newsgroups), what have you gotten out of
              Microsoft's and Netscape's 4.0 browser releases? A 40-MB
              monster sitting on your hard drive? Or exciting, dynamic content
              that pushes the medium and does things that you've never seen
              before?

              "Aside from some big sites that have the resources to produce
              4.0-specific content (and a few other valiant efforts to
explore this
              new space), dynamic HTML really hasn't taken off across the
              Net." 

He goes on to explain that only 4.0 browsers can handle this stuff, and
that the two leading browsers can't agree on how to implement it. 

         Those who want to investigate DHTML in spite of its shortcomings
can find good info in Macromedia's excellent discussion of the  relationsip
between CSS and DHTML:
        http://www.dhtmlzone.com/articles/dhtmlcss.html

Cordially,

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                                 Mary McWilliams Johnson
                               McJohnson Communications
                                  Documentation Specialist
                Web Site Design, Development and Graphics
                                  www.superconnect.com
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At 10:40 PM 6/19/98 -0700, George Mena wrote:
>Since we've had more than a few posts on Front Page and hand-coding
>HTML, I thought I'd post some excerpts from an article.
>
>According to the March/April 1998 issue of the Microsoft Developer
>Network News, a new form of HTML now exists.  It's called Dynamic HTML
>(DHTML) and programmers using the Microsoft Visual Basic development
>system and Visual Basic for Applicatons are already using it.
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