Re: The *New* HTML!

Subject: Re: The *New* HTML!
From: Mary McWilliams Johnson <mary -at- SUPERCONNECT -dot- COM>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:25:53 -0500

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.
><snip>




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